What can I say… The most impressive city I have ever seen.
Friday morning I headed with some friends off to Chicago. Ok when we started it was already 9am. We reached Chicago about 2pm. The skyline was just impressive.
It was not easy to make our way through the enormous traffic, but finally we entered the Palmer Hilton House. The girls checked out the hotel and felt like very rich people (thank you hotwire for providing such great charges) and the boys searched for a parking lot. It’s incredible but at the end we paid nothing for parking. Maybe I should mention that the car stayed in a very nasty neighborhood, but the police officer said it would be safe. Of course we trusted him.
That afternoon, we walked to the River front and Navy Pier. It was just beautiful.
Afterwards, we had lunch in an Italian Restaurant. Unfortunately, we didn’t eat the famous Chicago pizza. Maybe next time.
At night we had a small hotel room party. We headed off to explore Chicago’s nightlife around 1am. After searching the right subway station, for more then an hour, we decided to go home.
Friday morning I headed with some friends off to Chicago. Ok when we started it was already 9am. We reached Chicago about 2pm. The skyline was just impressive.It was not easy to make our way through the enormous traffic, but finally we entered the Palmer Hilton House. The girls checked out the hotel and felt like very rich people (thank you hotwire for providing such great charges) and the boys searched for a parking lot. It’s incredible but at the end we paid nothing for parking. Maybe I should mention that the car stayed in a very nasty neighborhood, but the police officer said it would be safe. Of course we trusted him.
That afternoon, we walked to the River front and Navy Pier. It was just beautiful.
Afterwards, we had lunch in an Italian Restaurant. Unfortunately, we didn’t eat the famous Chicago pizza. Maybe next time.
At night we had a small hotel room party. We headed off to explore Chicago’s nightlife around 1am. After searching the right subway station, for more then an hour, we decided to go home.
On Saturday morning we tested the swimming pool.
Afterwards we went fresh and alert to the best breakfast I have ever had. Wishbone: You should try it! We couldn’t decide what to get so we ordered lots of food: fruit pancakes, salmon with grits, French toast, patty sausages, steak with eggs…
Later we did a bus tour through Chicago. Our tour guide was a 50 year old woman who likes dancing, singing and laughing. You can imagine that was entertainment. While we were driving next to the Lake Michigan the weather changed from one second to another. Earlier it was sunny and warm, but suddenly it felt like driving into a fridge. After a few minutes, we decided to go downstairs to sit inside the bus.
Afterwards we went fresh and alert to the best breakfast I have ever had. Wishbone: You should try it! We couldn’t decide what to get so we ordered lots of food: fruit pancakes, salmon with grits, French toast, patty sausages, steak with eggs…
Later we did a bus tour through Chicago. Our tour guide was a 50 year old woman who likes dancing, singing and laughing. You can imagine that was entertainment. While we were driving next to the Lake Michigan the weather changed from one second to another. Earlier it was sunny and warm, but suddenly it felt like driving into a fridge. After a few minutes, we decided to go downstairs to sit inside the bus.
At night we took a cab to Chicago’s nightlife to make sure that we made our way to the club Excalibur. After drinking, dancing and some weird conversations with Spanish doctors, who by the way didn’t speak one word of English, we returned to the hotel at about 4am.
It wasn’t until noon the next day that we headed off to Millennium Park. The weather was beautiful again so we just walked around.
On our way back to Detroit, we stopped somewhere in Indiana at the Lake Michigan to see the beach and some dunes. Unfortunately the water was too cold to go swimming.
I hope I will get the chance to return…
Annika
It wasn’t until noon the next day that we headed off to Millennium Park. The weather was beautiful again so we just walked around.
On our way back to Detroit, we stopped somewhere in Indiana at the Lake Michigan to see the beach and some dunes. Unfortunately the water was too cold to go swimming.
I hope I will get the chance to return…
Annika
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I like your report - sounds great! After all my trips to US I never made it to Chicago, so far.
Only: I would prefer to hear "50 year young" - instead of "50 year old" ;-)
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