TWOsome in Chicago part two

After a very american breakfast (will they EVER be int

roduced to real good coffee taste? This one is su

pposed to be very good, strong starbucks competitor, b

ut hey, it doesn't really deserve the name COFFEE...) with lots of cereal and some fruit we ta

ke off from this real nice subu

rb heading downtown. I

remeber very good when those years ago the skyline of Chicago came in sight. A beautiful

sight - how will The Three Teenagers react? We

ll, they've seen other impressive

things in their lives, a skyline doesn't hit the fan in t

he 21 century....

But driving through the city does. You know this street

where you drive underneath t

he train viadukt? Was scenerie for various movies and The Three Teenagers are thrilled

to recognize it (where The Blues Brothers get bombed at in front of a hotel?). We leave the car in a parking garage

and walk. And walk. And walk. Magnificent Mile, actually Michigan Av. Park. Finally o

ur sightseeing point N01: Navy Pier. Used to be en enlarged wharf type thing with some

food stands. Now turned into a tourist attraction amusement

park type thing. I remember Chcago Fest, music for almost two weeks non stop along tha

t long navy pier, I even got to see Frank Sinatra there (yes, it HAS been that long ago...). W

e have lunch there (mexican) and take a Chicago Water Taxi to sightseeing point No2: Sears Tower, mind me, changed into

Willis Tower now. On the way we pass a filmset fo

r "Transformers 3" (watch the trailer from Chicago, we were there!).

Going up Sears/Willi's used to be walking into the hallway, enter an elevator and go up t

o the plattform. It now has its own entrance, cost a fortune and leads you through a history tour, then the elevator a

nd up to a souvenir shop with windows to look down on Chicago. Still the most

wonderful view on the Lake Michican I can ever imagine. The architects added a new gadet: drive out glas cubes

.

You actually stand 103 stories (ap 400 meters) up above the streets. Comes bad weather, thoses cubes can move inside the building for stabilisation safety. A tickling feeling to stand in there and look down! The Three Teenagers love it and take lots of pictures.

We go home to our suburban shelter and I wonder, what the kids will remember from Chicago....