I do not know if it is ever going to get boring or ordinary for me to see a big city skyline during this life, but I asked Will about it, because he has lived in Chicago for a year now, and he said “I’ll never get used to seeing that”. Honestly I do not even know if I will ever live next to a big city. I do not consider the city I live next to big at all. I sort of feel the same way as Will about the whole thing and I wanted my last post about my Chicago trip to be what I saw from my car, some miscellaneous pictures that did not really fit anywhere else and just a little recap of the trip there and the trip back home.

I got really excited about seeing Chicago from my car when we got close. Tom Tom took us through the city to get to where Will is, so I got to take in a lot of sites. I was really excited and giddy and had to start taking pictures of the sites, because there was so much around me. I actually had Jo take the pictures, because I was driving and it was sort of rush hour the entire trip in. I think it took us almost an hour to drive the last 20 miles.

I saw huge buildings, I saw beaches with palm trees, which I am still not entirely sure why they have palm trees on the beaches in Chicago, but anyway, I saw trails especially set up for bikes and running. Here they have miles and miles of nothing and they can not manage to have more than one crappy bike trail that goes past a sewage plant, and in Chicago they have miles of trails that go around the city and past beautiful sites like the beach and the docks. I am a little bitter about having to come back home after seeing all that Chicago has to offer. It makes me wonder where else I could live and what they would have waiting for me there.

There is something so marvelous about being in the shadow of all these enormous structures of steel and cement. Something so awesome about what man is able to create. Looking back at a lot of the pictures now it seems hard to believe that it is Chicago, because all you see is water and trees. It really is that marvelous to behold in some spots. I have become a bit infatuated with Chicago.

I took some pictures of Will’s dog Scooter, because he has a dog now. The dog is a mix between something and something else. I wish I could remember, but I have never really owned a dog and so I know that people who do know what “type” of dog they have, but I honestly can not keep it straight. It is an awesome dog though, so it was definitely worth taking a picture of.

This is the hat that I bought myself as a souvenir. I feel like it is a really awesome hat. I really like the Cubs logo. I might even be a Cubs fan now. I certainly have not routed for the Indians in forever. I bought Patty a blue shirt that says “I Love Chicago” and Eddy a Cubs shirt. I did not want to get them shirts from any specific attraction that I went to, because that is something they will have to do sometime. I bought my Grandma a bag of saltwater taffy from Navy Pier. I personally cannot eat the stuff, but she loves it.

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