Friday, July 20, 2012
My Chicago
Today, *MAYBE*, will be my last day talking about Chicago. This was my third trip to Chicago and my full purpose was to submerse my child into the Second City experience. I think we saw seven shows while we were there. And while he was in class I roamed the streets of Chicago, sent e-mail updates to my family, read a book and a half, SKYPED Dad in Italy and shopped some. Hey, I was ½ block from Michigan Avenue, can you blame me? When asked what I recommended another tourist to see, I was embarrassed almost to admit I wasn’t doing the ‘touristy’ things. But here are the things I did see and do.
The route to and from Second City from our hotel had me passing this sculpture at least twice a day. The detail is amazing. There are 5 fingers and toes on each hand and foot. Then upon closer look, the hair is made from silverware handles! I’m not sure what his official title is, but my unofficial title was banana man. One afternoon I was killing time waiting on Christian, so I walked over get a chocolate covered frozen banana. Looking for a cool place to sit and eat it, I thought, well, I’ll just head over to the park area…. The humor of me eating a frozen banana while ‘appreciating’ the sculpture took me a few hours to grasp. Lol! Hopefully no one got a picture of that.
Each morning we had breakfast at the McDonald’s across the street from Second City. One morning the manager was in the corner ordering his food and it makes me think of my Grandpa Gil and what all he went through working for them at that time in his life, long hours, countless employees... And then to know they didn't have shredded lettuce at that time, so the employees probably had more 'WORK' in preparation... Revelation knowledge, I know... Just my thought.. Plus the mgr is on his cell phone; Lord knows Grandpa Gil never had one of those, much less a 'cordless' phone... Wow, just think about how much life has changed since 1975!
Marijuana was the topic of the time we were there, I got a snapshot of the newspapers while sitting at McDonald's one day, Geez!
On the way back from breakfast and dropping Christian off I had a different path I took and had a few favorite houses of note. One day I was on the phone with my sister and talking about this magical place with castles all around, not realizing that there was someone behind me. When I stopped to take a picture to message her, the rather manly looking woman looked at me scared… lol! Like I cared. It was interesting that in such a modern city that there were ‘castle-looking’ houses. I laughed thinking about their ‘kingdoms’ in such a modern place.
Swoon, the church from the Julia Roberts Movie - My Best Friend's Wedding
Directly behind the chuch is the White Hall Hotel... See, you are never too far from home... Coincidentally, the Cheesecake Factory was right there as well, so you know, Chicago Michigan Avenue is my FAV Cheesecake Factory. This time I only went there 3 times.... And in 14 days, that is a new record, normally it is every day! lol! Oh, Chicago, I will miss you... Until next time... ;)
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Several years ago my sister and I went sky diving. A day later I visited my FIL who was fighting cancer at the time and I told him what I had just done, his reply - "I always wanted to do that and now I never will get to." Why do we wait until the end of our lives to start living our dreams? And doing the things we want to do? I'm done waiting on something else to happen before I choose ME - I'm bucket list living NOW!
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Several years ago my sister and I went sky diving. A day later I visited my FIL who was fighting cancer at the time and I told him what I had just done, his reply - "I always wanted to do that and now I never will get to." Why do we wait until the end of our lives to start living our dreams? And doing the things we want to do? I'm done waiting on something else to happen before I choose ME - I'm bucket list living NOW!
Please join my adventure! If you wait, you WON'T!
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