people are always telling me chicago is just like new york
city. and while i’ve slept in the airport
a few times, i’ve never really had a reason to go for real and see if
they were right. lucky for me, after all these years i finally had a reason! chad
has lived there for a year now and i decided that was just the perfect amount
of time for him to get to know the city enough to be my personal tour
guide.
our first official stop [straight from the airport with my luggage] was
pizza, of course. we don’t mess around! and then once i got rid of my bags, we
made another very important stop—second city! i have been to a fair amount of
comedy shows and this one was definitely my favorite! chad is a student there
also [cool, right?] so it was fun to see where he goes to class since i hear
about it all the time.
the rest of the trip we did all the important things like
eat pizza every single day, get magnolia’s cupcakes, build an ikea bed [i was
more of a supervisor], and walk until we thought our legs might fall off [which
was just enough time for me to admire all of the buildings and become completely
smitten with yet another city].
and since chad and i are kind of professionals at standing
in line, we thought it would be a good idea to go to the sears tower [which is
not actually called that anymore, fyi. It is now the willis tower]. about an
hour and a half, five lines, one metal detector, two elevators and 110 floors
later, we were on top of the tower and wondering why we ever thought it was
such a great idea. such a cool view but a little scary! even though chad wanted
to go on the glass floor, i literally had to shove him with all my might to get
on it.
[note where the floor should be. and please try not to note
whatever awkward thing i am doing with my hands]
neither of us are big picture takers to begin with, and i
forgot my camera charging at home in california so we didn’t take many and the
few that we did take are horrible. it’s just what happens when you’ve been
sweating all day and then are juggling taking pictures yourself while trying to
make up for over a foot height difference.
[disclaimer for this and the rest of the photos: usually i don't have a lazy eye and chad only has one chin. and these were the good pictures!]
we decided to go see the bean [which i learned is really
called ‘cloud gate’] at night, which was incredible. sadly, because of the
weird lighting you can’t really see it in the pictures—but it was beautiful!
[you can kind of see the bean, but not us]
[you can see us, but not the bean. we tried a million times to get it right!]
a city at night is seriously one of the most magical things
to me! i saw chicago during the day and loved it, and then when i got to see it
at night it literally took my breath away.
[here’s what it looks like during the day]
so just in case you were wondering i don’t think i would
ever tell anyone chicago is exactly like nyc, because it’s not. but i would
tell them it’s awesome and they would love it.
i can’t wait to go back!
