Chicago
June 9, 2009 – 9:09 amFinally I went into the city. Was a gloomy cloudy day, raining periodically, which is probably not the best weather to go to the parks.
Skyline from some bridge over railway. Not sure where exactly, but it’s close to Grant Park. I think.
The steel bean thingy at Millennium Park. See if you can spot me.
The famous spitting water thing - Crown Fountain.
The Jay Pritzer Pavilion. They were having a gospel music festival that day, but of course the main events were at night, which we couldn’t go. Unless I insisted, of course, but I didn’t insist, so we just went home. Gospel music is fun - the lively choir, the overboard solo vocalist…
Buckingham Fountain at Grant Park, which we didn’t really go, because it was just the ’same lake as the park near Northwestern Uni.’ Okay…
Welcome to Chinatown! Not a particularly pleasant place, as in dirty. Went mostly to buy egg tarts and go to toilet, because after the second Starbucks of my life (vanilla latte), I was bursting.
Chicago is a pretty nice place. The subways are pretty lousy, however. The trains just not very nice. That is, when compared to Hong Kong, because HK is pretty much the only big city I’ve been to a couple of times. Haven’t seen enough of Chicago though. Haven’t tried the pizza. Haven’t seen Navy Pier and other famous places. So hopefully some time soon, even if the 1-hour train ride into the city is painful. Meanwhile, I’ll play Sims 3. Or maybe the PS2 that was picked up at the dumpster, working perfectly well. You won’t believe the stuff that can be found in the trash - like new things that Americans throw away wastefully.