August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It came around all too quickly, our last whole day in Chicago =( There was still so much to do and the list was starting to become unachievable (in the end it was but we put a good dent in it). We started the »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This morning was an earlier start as we had booked tickets on the 1st architectural river cruise of the day (10am). Mum grabbed a coffee from the real coffee place in the shopping centre in the same building as the Hotel and we »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Swimmers on, respectable clothes on top, swiped hand towel from the room. Oak Street Beach time. Guess how far away the beach is from the Hotel, from Michigan Avenue, from the city? Two blocks, across the road and across the road respectively. I »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe if I start talking about it now I won't feel so stuffed because of it. Deep Dish Pizza of Death. I don't know whether to hug you or to throw you up. You were so good with those »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had to break that day in two otherwise it would be yet another epic blog without pictures and the hope of an ending as you scroll down the page. So we left the excitable girls primping and comparing their dolls and headed »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wide awake at 530am wondering why both of us just couldn't go back to sleep and then when we wanted to it was 9am and time to seize the day. Started the day in a Cafe for breakfast watching the clouds »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remind me that I need to attack that Toffee Apple store at O'Hare airport on my way out of here. Mum spotted it, looks amazing. Our drive in was probably one of the most scenic drives from airport to Hotel that »
August 2011 - Chicago & LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I have learnt that is ok to ask for a glass of champagne in Business Class at 6am in the morning. And no, that wasn't me. It was the lady I walked past on the way to my much smaller »
