August 26, 2011

• Working and Playing – Photo blog

  I wanted to get away with Roger so I decided today would be a good day to come into the office.  Last week I suggested to Roger that we take the train into town, get a hotel, and spend a couple days in Chicago.  We took the 7:11 am train from Flint and got here around noon.  About the same as driving considering that once you hit the city limits it takes an hour to get anywhere because EVERY FREAKING STREET IN THE LOOP is under construction, it seems, and the city is filled with detour after detour.

  Last night we went to Millennium Park and saw Crown Fountain (when preparing to build these, they went through the city taking pictures of real people – the faces change periodically on these monoliths.)

  

   

  After that we went to the sculpture correctly called Cloud Gate but colloquially known as “The Bean” because its shape resembles a kidney bean.

  

  We then went to the Pritzker band shell where there was a free Jazz concert – we sat in about the 10th row back, center stage.

  

  The music was good, but I prefer softer jazz.  This was pretty progressive.  It was mostly Miles Davis stuff.

  From there, we decided to take a walk on the twisty-turny BP Pedestrian Bridge

  

  After we finished there, it was dark out and we decided to go back to our hotel.

  

  Where we are staying on the floor commemorating this ‘icon’ (this is the actual display when you get off the elevator):

  

  Today, before I had to go to work, we took a walk along the Chicago River

  

  Then stopped for Breakfast

  

  And finally, on to work

  

  Tonight we’ll probably hang out at one of Chicago’s biggest tourist attractions

  

  or maybe Grant Park

  

  I just wish there were fireworks tonight.  If we can, I would also like to see about maybe doing a dinner cruise.

  

  I did this a few years ago with two of my BFFs (one who is active on Xanga) But we did it on a Saturday night, when there were fireworks from Navy Pier.

   

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