July 5 - Green City Market & more Face Bacon

After grabbing our Intelligencia latte, we strolled down to the Green City Market to grab some grub for an alfresco picnic on the grass.  We meandered home through the city streets, stopping at North Pond to feed the ducks (whoops, didn't see the don't feed the ducks sign until it was too late) and a local playground to get our wiggles out.

We left the girls in the capable hands of our Chicago sitter and jetted off to meet Jack's cousin Bill and his wife Dana.  Our partners in travel and sometimes, crime!  We showed up early to score a table at Longman & Eagle - a gastropub with a Micheline star, not to mention one of the hottest hipster joints in town!   While we worked our way through the cocktail list,  we ate, laughed and got caught up!   If you can believe it, there was Tete de Cochon on the menu!  Now my grade 9 french is a little rusty but you can't fool me - that's pig head!  Dammit.  Of course Jack had to order it.  It's like a dare.  In this case, it turned out to be a very delicious dare - it was prepared just like classic pork rillettes which is going to be good no matter what part of the pork it comes from!  

PS - this is day 23.  This is the halfway point of our trip.  : /