Chicago - Day 3

Woke up and ooh-ed and ahhh-ed over the city again:





After eating lunch, I decided to take some photos of this construction site across from our hotel:





The pictures, unfortunately, don't do justice to the colors.



D later found out that its going to be a Trump building, so now I'm not as excited. Oh well.



We then headed over to see The Bean, a mirrored sculpture in Millennium Park.

There was a cool amphitheater there that we checked out first:







There were also lovely, clean bubblers (I haven't said that in forever!):





Here's The Bean:



The Bean rules. You can see the entire city in it.





I have a billion pictures of us looking at ourselves in The Bean. When you get close to it, it just seems like a regular mirror. It is as though its not curved.

After The Bean, we tried to go to the Chicago Cultural Center.

It was, of course, closed. Some local city holiday.

We decided to go to the Marshall Field's to warm up.



It's way better than the Macy's in Herald Square. I never would have thought it possible.



We walked around the city a bit more.



We walked to the river.





We ended up at Union Station, as D is a lover of train stations.



We grabbed a cab back to the hotel, picked up our bags, took the train back to the airport and were in NYC a few hours later.

The minute we arrived at Penn Station we were saddened by the ugliness. I guess Chicago is sterile, but it is also beautiful. It is planned. It is vast. The streets are wide, the terrain is flat, you can appreciate the city as a whole from wherever you are standing. The beauty of New York if often obscured by its thin streets and tall facades. To truly appreciate New York you have to look at it from the sky or from New Jersey. Or maybe you just have to be a tourist.