Palmer House Chicago

PALMER HOUSE - A HILTON HOTEL  The historic and iconic hotel is where visiting med techs stay in Windy City Chicago.  Wealthy Potter Palmer built the original hotel as a gift to his bride Bertha Honore.  It opened on September 26, 1871 but unfortunately burned down 13 days later in the Great Chicago Fire that started when a cow kicked Mrs. O'Leary's lamp on October 9, 1871.  It was rebuilt in 1875.  In 1920, the Palmer Estate decided to erect a new 25-story hotel.  In December 1945, Conrad Hilton bought the hotel for $20 million.  It's the second-largest hotel after Hyatt Regency Chicago.

You are greeted by a friendly Filipino concierge who was brought from the Philippines.  How's that for equal opportunity hotel employer? 

The hotel was renovated from 2007 - 2009

Med Techs stayed from September 20-21, 2009

Med Tech Reunion

Ready to tour Chicago after a good night's rest

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WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN.  WHAT COMES DOWN, MUST GO UP.

The world is still here and will keep on turning.  I don't worry, so don't you worry, for everything is political and media driven.  Mind me and you, after the election everything will be hanky-dory.  So relax and enjoy our favorite things.

There's no denying I love eating.  I just have to thank from the bottom of my heart and gut my two personal chefs - Susan and Sofie for my monthly supply of my favorite yummy dishes.

Susan's food containers:   

• Chicken salad
• Dinuguan, dry Ilocano style, with jalopeno pepper
• Cellophane noodles with pieces of chicken and shiitake mushrooms
• Chicken tinola with sayote and spinach
• Boiled peanuts (the only peanuts I eat)
• Watermelon

Sofie's food containers:

• Grilled pork ribs marinade in mixture of barbecue sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce and plum sauce.  Muy masarap!
• Dinuguan, wet Tagalog style
• Pinakbet
• Baked pork ribs with fats included. 

My genetic makeup is so different that Spam, Vienna sausage, eggs (3 eggs a day) and meat with fats are my basic staples since childhood.  I read brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever!
Again, a million thanks to my personal chefs.  The food you bring give me so much joy!!!
There! Not hungry anymore I can talk of other important stuff.  Susan and I went to Chinatown to treat Sofie for her birthday.  We had a late dim sum at the Phoenix restaurant.

Sofie just came back from New York visiting her son, David, a bright graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University.  She also went to Jersey City to join her college med tech co-interns for a weekend mini-reunion with Nerie, Ruby, Lily, Hedy, Josie Datu and Myra and husband Lenny who finally arrived after a 5-hour drive from Maryland braving hurricane Hanna.  Evelyn did not make it due to the bad weather.
They've been urging Sofie to organize and hold a Med Tech class reunion in Chicago in 2009.
We in Chicago have discussed the plan.  You have to wait for the plan after my lunch of dinuguan.

   

Published  9/26/08  ALT MSN Group

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