Look there brother baby, wanna see what I see

I promised my sister that my next post would be about Chicago. It was my last stop in my two-and-a-half month wandering and my major purpose in going was to visit Nat.

Even in my short time there - just a week - I could see why Nat and other people love Chicago. It seems like it would be a great place to live. And it has been the setting of quite a few books and movies that I've loved, so it was nice to be able to get a bit better feel of the atmospherics of some of those.

My first comment: that's a lake??? I sort of knew how big the Great Lakes were - the first time I flew across the US I saw them out of the aeroplane window and thought "I thought it was going to take us longer to reach the coast than that". But that still didn't prepare me for the immensity of Lake Michigan, which is not even the largest of the Great Lakes.

Apart from that, I spent my week wandering around the city, hanging out with my sister, and taking a few photos. I didn't actually take all that many, but a collection follows:

In Chicago, a visit to a jazz club is compulsory.

Also very highly recommended is the Architecture River Cruise - this photos shows the Sears Tower.

A post-modern building, with an interesting top.

Architecture involving triangles is likely to have been designed by Harry Weiss.

Chicago's weather is as changeable as Melbourne's, and for similar reasons. This storm hit about 5 minutes after I took this photo - just as we got off the boat. I scrambled into a near-by cafe (below) to wait it out.



Chicago has some cool parks, as well, including Millenium Park, where the faces in the fountains spit water at each other (although you can't see that in this photo):



And Lincoln Park, complete with its zoo.


I'd heard that camels' humps got floppy when they got empty, but wasn't sure if I believed it... until now!


Chicago puts on a pretty good show at twilight, too:




And finally, the hot chocolate at Vosges (520 N. Michigan Ave) is not to be missed: