Chicago!

My friend, Sarah, is on a mini summer vacation before she starts grad school. I'm on my second half of summer vacation before 4K starts for me. So we decided to take the train to Chicago for a little day trip today. It was such a gorgeous day and after all of the walking we did, I am tried! 

We didn't have any plans, other than to actually go to Chicago, so we had mostly a sight-seeing day. We walked around  Millennium Park (and took some obligatory pictures at the Bean). 

From there, we got a coffee and checked out a (possibly haunted) water tower. Supposedly, when The Great Fire happened in the 1800's, some guy hung himself (instead of being burned to death) at this water tower- people have claimed to see him hanging around still today. We didn't see anything creepy, but we did see a photograph exhibit inside :) 

We walked down the Magnificent Mile and stopped in a shop or two as we headed to Navy Pier. 

After walking around all morning, we were hungry! We got lunch at a burger place (it was delicious) and then decided to check out China Town. Neither of us had been there before- we found the red line and made it there with no problems :) I'm still proud of us for that. 

There were plenty of interesting little shops there. We went into a grocery store that had unique chunks of meat, some live(?) turtles in a bucket, and lots of other foods I've never tasted. I wish I could have bought a bunch of them, but I didn't want to have to carry them around the rest of the day. 

When we were done with china town, we went back to near the burger place, walked along the river, and then it was time to go! The day went by so fast! It was nice to take the train home- so convenient and it was good to be able to relax for a little while (instead of having to drive home).