Chicago

Our first stop on our adventure was in Chicago, IL. 

I have heard such amazing things about Chicago and just saw a group from church go to Chicago to do a marathon. It has always looked like a wonderful place and I was really excited that we were stopping there. 

Our first stop in Chicago was at a fellow student's dad's office. (did you follow that?) We got to put our stuff down and see Chicago from the like 70something floor (I don't actually remember how high up it was) but look here...

It was pretty incredible to see the city from up here.

Then we had some free time to explore the city, like an hour or two, before lunch. So, we decided it'd be fun to go to the Navy Pier. We saw it from up there and thought it wouldn't be too bad, we could just walk there and take a taxi back if we ran out of time. Here is what we predicted from...

see it on the left in the picture? 

Well yeah, it was a bit of a further walk than we anticipated. Plus, it was SUPER hot. Plus, we just kinda walked in the general direction hoping that we would get there eventually. Well by the time we decided we should probably get a taxi for real, we could see it. However, we could not see a way to get to that street. So then we went to ask a taxi how much it would be to ride over there and got fussed at for not asking the first taxi in line. Then we asked the first one and he was trying to be smart with us. 

In the end we got to Navy Pier and it wasn't as extravagant as I had in my mind, but still pretty neat. 

Then the rest of my group decided to ride the ferris wheel. 

We went back to the office, had some lunch, and went to the airport to catch our 10 hour flight to Poland! 

Overall, Chicago was neat as much as I could see of it. However, I do not feel I got an adequate  representation of the city and hope that I can go back some day to fully experience it.