Saturday, August 29, 2009

Wandering to the Windy City

We're officially on vacation! We arrived here in Chicago at 6:30 their time and got to the hotel, via the elevated train, around 7:00 pm. The El is cool because you have such a good view of all the buildings you're passing by.
The train dropped us off so close to our hotel we actually walked right by it and had to come back when we got to the end of the block. Front door service. Since it was dinner time we went downstairs to a little deli/restaurant called Ada's. I got a chicken pesto salad (ok, nothing special) and Chris got a corned beef sandwich with latkes instead of bread and stuffed with coleslaw. He was in heaven. I'd never had latkes before and I think they're almost worth turning Jewish for.
Notice my new haircut? I had Colleen cut it all off on Friday. After dinner we wandered down the block looking for the CVS, but got sidetracked and ended up a street over at Grant Park. There's a whole bunch of art pieces there that are lit up at night so we had to go check it out.
A waterfall that changed lights from purple to green to clear to yellow.
Me standing on Michigan Avenue.
A cool jellybean looking blob of metal. It had the coolest reflections of all the night lights.
This was a pavilion at the park that changed colors on the outside and inside had a wall full of people all telling stories. I wasn't actually listening to what they were saying, but it was cool.
After all that we finally made our way to CVS only to find they close at 8:00 pm!? Luckily there was a 7-Eleven around the corner so we were able to stock up on candy and drinks for our room. Sour patch kids for me, DOTS for the Canadian.

Even though our internal clocks are two hours behind Chicago time, I don't think we're going to have any trouble going to sleep tonight. Traveling all day makes anyone tired.

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