so we got ready to implement Trillian's plan codenamed "sunshine", consisting of Navy Pier, some Picasso statue and the Sears Tower.Firstly, though, we followed Nema's advice that she got from her roommates and went all the way east on 57th, passing the Museum of Science and Industry
until we hit the lake.
Just in case you were still doubting me when I told you the weather here is incredibly warm today:
As additional proof, all three of us got a sunburn today.
There actually was a pretty nice view of the skyline of Chicago around here, but even though you could see much farther today than the day before yesterday, downtown was still a little misty.
Be that as it may, we crossed the freeway
and went downtown,
towards this place,
stopping only, of course, for the girls to recharge on this stuff:
Another proof that it was objectively warm today - when you stood in the glaring sun it felt even warmer though.
So this was Navy Pier..
.. apparently famous for some huge things ..
.. and the usual blatantly superficial American values.
After all, if a person utters any of these things in your presence, they are friendly by definition and no Sir, there is no FREE meal in it for you.Given Nema's hot dog though
and my tasteless burrito
the food actually should have been free and not so ridiculously overpriced.
At these prices, the girls even managed to steer clear of a "SALE SALE SALE" sign of a "fashion bazaar"!
Taking pictures in the beautiful weather was free though.
As opposed to the lemonade. $6 anyone? And I thought this was a family place.
Pictures were still free though.
After Navy Pier the girls wanted to see Millenium Park - this $450 Million partly-green patch downtown that apparently was supposed to be done by the year 2000 but was in 2004.The list of sponsors of the park (donating $1,000,000 and above) was impressive though. Americans do like to donate.
There was even a name among them that I'd see more often in the coming two months. Can you find it?
This is the bean. That's way more fun a sight to see than most others as I'm sure you can imagine.
After all, people are said to have fallen to the ground while walking under it .. muahahah.
I did have to get one or two more poser pics in.
Then guess what. Nema hadn't seen Macy's yet. ARGH!
I'll spare you with the details. After crossing that ugly Picasso thing off the list
we decided to skip the Sears Tower given that it was $12 to go up there and offering pretty much the same view as any other skyscraper we could go up into for less to nothing (for example, Nema had been in a bar on the 91st floor for free).Back home we had some food
before the arrival of the third Munich medstudent, let's call him Borat (meheheh), and we were taken to check out Chicago's night life by Nema's roommates like the one on the left - let's call him Milo.
One more time, I felt lucky to be a guy since I ended up being asked to dance infinitely fewer times than the girls did. But they said they enjoyed themselves and so did I. The barman was extraordinarily generous with the liquor he put into cocktails.
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