The Windy City!

On our way to Pittsburgh, PA we got to stop and have a day in Chicago IL. Alissa and I had an adventure! We probably walked a marathon! My legs/feet have never hurt so bad...

We were staying in Rosemont, IL so we had to take the train in to the city!

I feel like we should be on the LIRR going to the Hamptons:) Once we got downtown, clearly we ate! Then got a map from the information center too aid us with our 1 day journey in Chicago. Our first stop was the Sears Tower...


This is one of my favorite pics from the top. Now, Alissa is the one who suggested we go, we pay the $17, go through this long maze with pics of the building and stuff. Then we get escorted into this theater were we watch a short film made by the History Channel on the Sears Tower and how for a while it was the tallest building in the world ... blahblahblah! All through this movie I was sitting there thinking how Ironic it was that the windiest city in America held the tallest building in the world for a little bit, it just doesn't sound safe to me!

Oh, but so we get all the way up to the top and Alissa starts to have an anxiety attack, apparently she forgot she was afraid of heights, couldn't even go to the window. She just circled the elevator, looking from a distance. Her palms were all clammy it was funny! So our time up there was a little short lived but it was still really cool!

Now with a relaxed clammy palm, Al (I'm just going to call her Al. because I don't want to type Alissa anymore... I type her name wrong every time, I don't know why) & I ventured off to Navy Piers, But got sidetracked on the way:) We fount the Art Institute of Chicago... It homes the original painting of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" By Georges Seurat:

The original is huge! We found out that he did it in three installments, The first was the basic painting with shading and solids. The second, he used pointillism in contrasting colors, and then the third he re stretched the canvas to make a border... basically it's stunning! We sat there for 30 minutes just starring at it, the more you gazed the more you would notice. We had to make our selfs leave... we have the whole rest of Chicago to see, we couldn't spend the rest of the day starring at painting!

Then we stumbled upon Millennium park... This was my favorite part of the day! There were so many things that could entertain me for hours:)

I stole this pic from someone else's blog... It's called the Clown Fountain, and what's happening in the pic is what it does; people's faces are on the big tower and water comes out of there mouth... it's so entertaining, I love it! Then we found the Bean ... It's actually called Cloud Gate on the AT&T Plaza;

Al and I got really carried away with pics of this thing, we took like 15... here are a few:

That one is taken from the center of the Bean... These were taken on the side of it...


See what happens when you put actors in front of a mirror - it's a lot to deal with, I know:) So after that, We got really lost, we found our selfs in the middle of rich residential downtown area, we asked like 5 people how to get to Navy Piers & in the proses of trying to get there, this really annoying family decided they would tag along. We were like "is this really happening?" But finally we found it:

It was so cute! In the middle of the Pier is a Stain Glass museum ... lol so random! But thanks to N.P. I've found my new dance head shot, or commercial for that matter;

I feel like it frames my physique really well:) Now this one is Al. to a tee. She truly does have a really long torso so it's perfect!

After a couple different photo shoots, that I won't bore you with, we took the free trolley to the "Magnificent Mile!" It's basically like 5th avenue ... A whole bunch of overly priced stores that only the elite of Chicago can shop at. We went into Nordstrom and nobody even bothered asking me if I needed anything... I guess my jeans and zip up gave my class status away.

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After being ignored we ventured up to homo land, otherwise known as "Boys Town!" What brought us there was the originator of Musical Mondays, a bar called Side Tracks! I need to backtrack a bit! In Chelsea there's a bar called Splash were every Monday they have a thing called "Musical Mondays" It's basically a time for homos to unite and sing along to there favorite diva or leading man, it's a beautiful thing:) So of course we couldn't pass up the opportunity:) ... It was ok... In NY there's a dance floor, Marty Thomas Singing, everyone mingling, talking... at Side Tracks I felt like we couldn't talk, or sing for that matter. All attention was to be turned toward the screen! There was big group of us there and of course we were singing along. We kept getting looks from the people around us... but at the same time they kept asking us what musical the clip was from... regardless, it was a lovely caper to the marathon of a day!

Now we're in Pittsburgh PA, quite a lovely town! I get to see Jonny in Baltimore, our next city, I can't wait!!!

I love you all! Talk to you later:)