tarnish

Well I am back from Chicago. And it was a fucking awesome time. I didnt get to meet up with any SG people, which I was hoping to, we were just too busy doing stuff. We spent most of our time in the city, but our hotel was in a little town called waukeegan. And we also visited Gurney and Aurora(party on) IL.as well as Wisconsin. Milwaukee was not the most exciting place, but the architecture was awesome. We also found a pretty kick ass Irish pub there with a nice Guinness and yummy corned beef.

Our first real day out, we went to Soldier field and the Shedd aquarium then we took a water taxi to navi pier. Wandered around for a bit, then headed to the Taste of Chicago, which is a huge food fest in the park. There are a shitload of booths set up, with the local places set up giving a taste(or a full portion) of their finer selections. You buy tickets and it was 3 tickets for a taste, and 6 for a full. I basically kissed my diet goodbye at this point. But it was fun despite the heat and my poor choice in footwear. We had a fun night out where we all got dolled up and went on the town to the snazzier places. And surprisingly we weren't turned away from any of the places we visited. We saw fireworks from two different boats on the lake. Once on the 4th, then again the night before we left. And on the day we left we visited millennium park and marveled at the bean. I wanted to take it home with me. Amazing, really.


I took a shit ton of pictures, but I wont bore you to death with all of them, here are some of the highlights though.



globe on the docks by the shedd


fireworks from the boat on the 4th of july


fireworks 2


old Milwaukee water tower


museum of contemporary art


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dusk


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boats in the lock


last day