Deep dish and silver beans

And it sure was windy! Before hopping down to Philly for a conference, I went to Chicago to visit with some friends. A reunion of sorts of the ol' gang. We stayed at a prime central location. The hotel was old, but had 'character'. It was a scorcher though. But we were close to the Mellenium park, which had amoungst other things, a giant silver kidney bean. It's shiney in the picture, but pretty dirty up close. It needs windex. But it's pretty darned neat. It's supposed to reflect the sky, thereby being a cloud shaped piece of it on earth I think.

We also went on an architecture boat tour. Some kind of river runs through Chicago. A river that humans reversed the direction of to make it more esthetically pleasing. I wonder how many whooping cranes died for that. Lots of fancy properties in Chicago. We also went up the John Hanson tower for a panoramic view of the city.

What's Chicago without deep dish pizza and the Cubs? Amazingly enough, we got to see a baseball game without any planning. There were scalpers peddling their seats but the box office had six in a row in a beautiful section just above the plate, all for a reasonable price! Sure we sweated buckets, but it was cool. And the dogs were pretty good too.