Chicago By Foot

Kristin was kind enough to make me breakfast this morning consisting of a spinach and mozzarella frittata, scone cake, and English tea. Now that I say is the right way to recover from a night on the town.

After finishing breakfast we started to discuss our plans for the day. We tossed around the idea of heading to a museum to see some of the exhibits, but most of them were very expensive and ill timed. Our other option was to try out the planetarium; unfortunately this also was a bit pricey and did not fit our schedule very well. However, the one thing I was truly interested in was exploring the city. So we put on our walking shoes and hit the town.

We started on 9^th street and walked to Grant Park I believe. We walked from block to block seeing the sites and snapping photos. We eventually made our way to the magnificent mile, a section of Michigan ave. where all the nicest shops were located. We stopped at a coffee shop near the end of the magnificent mile to warm up a bit and to get some coffee and a hotdog shop for a Chicago style hotdog, no lie its not just with pizza. It was a beautiful day, however it was windy and about 50 degrees. By the end of the day I was freezing.

The entire experience was amazing. I must have taken a few hundred photos of the city as well as a few of Kristin and I. Once the sun started to set and I no longer had enough light to take pictures, we realized that we were very hungry. So we headed back to the car and took a quick driving tour of the University of Chicago as well as Wriggly field before meeting up with her room mate and her boyfriend at a quaint little hole in the wall sushi restaurant.

It was a tiny restaurant, clearly catering to locals and it took forever to get a table but it was worth it. We ate until we were sick, the sushi was so delicious. It was all you can eat and the sushi rolls were enormous.

After we finished, we headed home for some down time. Kristin and I are contemplating getting dressed up again and heading back into town to check out Boystown. However, it has been an eventful weekend already and we are both pretty tired so I am not sure if we will or not. If we do we probably will not be out nearly as late as we were last night. And if we don’t go I am sure I will be back to visit sometime and we can spend a whole lot more time down there. I guess I should get a little rest now and see how we feel in an hour or so.