Valentines Day Snowstorm

I'm working tonight so we celebrated Valentines Day last night at Topolobampo. It only took us 65 minutes to get downtown, which is only 6 miles away. They had closed Lake Shore Drive, one of the major thoroughfares in Chicago. Thank goodness for strong drinks. I started immediately with a peach Bellini and some warm sunchoke soup. They bring out complementary guacamole (THE BEST IN THE CITY) with cucumbers and jicama. YUM.

Everything on the menu looked so good; I could hardly decide between the duck, lamb, pork, and even the vegetarian enchiladas sounded tasty. I finally went with the lamb and though the mole sauce was a little tart/sour, it was exquisitely tender and the corn tortillas were AMAZING. I was so stuffed afterward that we had to skip dessert entirely.

The drive back was less harrowing because we knew what streets to avoid but right when we turned onto my street which is always always the last to get plowed, we almost got STUCK. It was a scary 5 minutes, as we tried to get out, and as I could hear the tires spinning and see the snow flying...

Finally, we decided to not go down my street at all and I got dropped off a slightly bigger street, which was only slightly more plowed.

In addition to the massive amounts of snow that fell from the sky yesterday, it was also windy enough to cause large snow banks. Like this one in front of my door. Think, sand dune-like Snow Dunes.