This last week it has been bitterly cold in Chicago. So cold that things are not "business as usual." However, that doesn't mean it's not lacking in excitement. For the cowboy state, it has been quite the opposite weather-wise and you won't hear us complaining.
Living in Wyoming, we will seldom see what the rest of the world gets to see in terms of what is being used to encourage travelers to pick the Cowboy State as a destination.
A 30-year-old guy from suburban Chicago, Randy Schmitz, was on vacation in Myrtle Beach, S.C., last summer.
He went to the Pepper Palace, which sells crazy hot sauces. The hottest sauce it sells is Flashbang, a combination of four peppers -- Carolina Reaper, scorpion, ghost pepper and habanero.
Schmitz had to sign a waiver just to try a tiny bit of the sauce on a toothpick as part of a challeng
Otters are adorbs.
Sea otter pups are extra adorbs.
And when you throw in that the sea otter pup is an orphan, well that just throws in all the awwww you could ever need.
Being president means countless photo opportunities and public appearances, most of them probably ones that one doesn't want to do.
When President Barack Obama was at a polling location in Chicago promoting the midterm general elections and casting his ballot, he probably didn't plan on being threatened by someone about their girlfriend.