Visuals from 'Chicago'

Rain showers are quite possibly my favorite thing ever. Well, maybe not my absolutely favorite thing, but they're certainly up there on my list. The spa I go to has them, and on the rare occasions that I can treat myself to a massage, I spend about an hour in the shower after. Lol. Life's simple pleasures, right? For those that haven't seen a rain shower, here you go:

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I've never been in a rain shower like the one above, usually they are glass enclosed, but that was the best picture I could find that showed the actual shower head. (Yes, I am a dork. No apologies for that, lol!)

Alice and Mike give Bella quite the travel care package at the beginning of the chapter. Included in that care package: a tickle and whip. I'm not going to get into my reasoning behind picking the items for the vacay kit, but a tickle and whip looks a little something like this:

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Here comes the little slice of my own self I imported into this chapter: Chicago's welcoming snowstorm! It just so happened that I took a trip to Chicago this past January with two of my bffs for my birthday. Go figure the day after we arrive, 12.5 inches of snow came falling from the sky. Now, I'm from Minnesota, I consider myself a winter weather champion because not only do we have what I would consider the most variable weather conditions to travel in, but we also get GOBS and GOBS of snow each winter (2010 = the year of three storms with 20+ inches each time). This past winter was an exception, however, and I think by the time we left for Chicago we'd only gotten 9 or less all winter in the Twin Cities metro. Needless to say, 12.5" (which normally isn't a startling number) was ridiculous. Anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of experiencing a midwest winter, take a look for yourself at what happened in Chicago in the winter of 2011:

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And Bella wondered why Edward was worried about their car. ;)