Quite Possibly the Best Gift Ever

When opening gifts on Christmas day in Jacksonville, Ryan and I were surprised to open a deck of cards and even more surprised at the excited look on my mom's face. Then as we read what was inside, we were nothing less than delighted. 

In this deck is 52 cards representing 52 restaurants in Chicago - categorized by cuisine and neighborhood - that are a $10 giftcard that can be used on food at that particular restaurant.  We were thrilled to see some of our favorite restaurants - Sola, Deleece and Spacca Nopali, but even more excited to see a ton of restaurants we wanted to try and had never even heard of. 

Last Saturday, we chose from the deck and came up with Mixteco Grill in Andersonville. It was delicious! A quaint, BYOB Mexican restaurant that was bursting at the seams with people. The food was AMAZING and we will definitely be returning - all because of this little deck of cards.  We expecially loved that we could enjoy our cans of Miller Light that we had brought in a brown lunch bag.  

The ticket we got on our car afterwards was not amazing though, so we will be spending this weekend battling the City of Chicago. Oh snow and negative 35 degree temperatures, when will you go away?