{"id":657,"date":"2009-08-12T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2009-08-12T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:51:09","slug":"chicago-navy-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Chicago: Navy Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jo and I decided that our next destination would be Navy Pier. As you can imagine it is a pier, so it is by the water. We needed to get from Millennium Park to the water front, but honestly while Jason had mentioned the buses that we should take, I unfortunately did not remember what he said correctly and we ended up looking at a map of bus routes. Looking at the map did not really give us that much information, but we did something that worked out wonderfully. We just got on a bus and took it north.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We knew where Navy Pier was, we just did not know exactly how to go to it. So we started by going north. The next step was finding a way down, because when you get far enough north you still need to go west and the problem is that Navy Pier is only accessible by buses that run streets that are lower than where we were. I am not sure if we really had to walk down the steps to get to these buses, and I am pretty sure we could have found a bus that ran down there, but we did it anyway.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As you might imagine there is not a great deal to do on a pier. Matter of fact we did less than I guess what most people would do on this particular pier. We did not take a boat ride\/tour of the city, we did not get on the ferris wheel or any other ride, and we did not watch the magic show that was going on when we got there.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What we actually did was eat Italian ice, walked down to the end of the pier to get a better picture of the lighthouse at the end, and turn around and take a picture of Chicago from the end. This was our last destination for the evening and I have to say that it was a good thing. We were sort of exhausted, sweaty, and we had promised Jason and Will that we would buy them dinner that night so we really had another engagement to get to before the day was over.<\/p>\n

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