Chicago a new day

Tuesday 14 August 2012 – A new day in Chicago

Day 124 and 34 to go

With a good night’s rest and being dosed up on cold and flu’s I woke feeling much better and it seems the weather was feeling better also as it was bright and blue outside.

We watched the TV morning shows while I also did some checking for things on the net. We both had showers and got our selves dressed and organised and then we left the hotel at 9.45am heading to the café we had breakfast in yesterday. Today we were able to sit outside and enjoy our breakfast with the little birds.

With breakfast finished we walked north to the Oak Street Beach on the edge of Lake Michigan. There were people enjoying the sun and the water. I went to the waters edge and dipped my hand in it. We then continued our wander along the Lake passing a photo shoot where the models were bouncing on small tramps.

We walked into Lincoln Park where we checked out another beach before we decided to head back toward the hotel. We walked through an old housing district where the buildings were really interesting.

Once back at the hotel we dumped our warm clothes, as it was too hot for them, did a quick net search for directions to our next destinations and then we were out heading to the ‘L’ to catch the red line train in to downtown. When we made our stop we needed to swap to the green line train, after getting the end destination sorted we waited for the train.

We were sitting on the train next to a couple of young and skinny dope heads who were chatting away and it was just so funny listening to them.

We disembarked a few stops later and walked the final 500m to the United Centre, the home of the famed Chicago Bulls basketball team. The stadium is massive and really puts our new Perth stadium to shame considering this one was built at least 40 years ago as Elvis performed here 3 times in the 70’s. Madonna is even scheduled to play two nights here next month.

Outside the stadium is a life size statue Michael Jordan in full flight to the bucket. We checked it out before buying a Bulls pin and walking back through the ‘burbs, a selection of multi storey units that did not offer inspiration.

We returned to downtown and began walking crossing the river and then stopping in at Public House for a drink and then lunch as Paul was enjoying the extensive beer list.  The meal we had was delicious and then we finished up and continued our walk.

We returned to Michigan Ave and walked the Mile passed all the fancy shops. We stopped in at Victoria Secret, you can pay a lot for very little in that store! We then made our way back to a supermarket for drinks  before heading back to our room.

We veged in the room. I used the net to check on things for our move to Milwaukee and Indianapolis before having a bath and reading some more of my book. We were feeling lazy again and seeing we weren’t particularly hungry we decided not to bother going out again. We just continued watching TV before finally calling it a night.