Chicago Trip, Part I

This is the hotel room in chigago. we stayed at the Omni, it's 4stars, and it was awesome!

that's me in the bed, trying to not be so sick after really bad plane ride!













hey, that TV's the same size as the one at home, it's like we never left. derek ate a snickers bar. was it good derek, cuz the little paper here says that it's $4!

This is the Japanese Consolate, which we went to right after we checked into the hotel and i changed my clothes. it was really rainy, but i think that i looked really good, and everyone knew who i was and kept asking how i was feeling.

after my JET interview we went back to the hotel to change clothes, again. it had been raining badly when we went to the consolate, but it had stopped by the time we left. we decided to go see a sketch comedy show called "immaculate deception". we catch a ride to the second city theater, but we have a little less than 2 hours till the show, so we scope out a place to eat, we end up at this classy irish resturaunt. derek actually orders fish and i have chicken, and it's very good. we donate our leftovers to the girl at the ticket counter and kick back with a few drinks. it was a really good show and we had a great time. it was snowing (light and dusty) when we left and took a cab back to the hotel.

it was a beautiful and clear day on fri morning, and derek and i get ready for our day out sight-seeing. we have the complimentary car service booked to take us to the aquarium at 10am, so at 9 we head down to the hotel's resturaunt and eat a very nice, all-be-it pricey, breakfast.

then we rode with Scott, the car driver, in the nice towncar and have a nice conversation about the city. he dropped us off at the aquarium, and we proceeded to dodge small children and take many photos, all of which i will not bother to post. we saw the coral reef exhibit and the oceanarium.

yes, love the balugas! then we walked over to the planetarium and watched to shows, one more historical and the other was for identifying stars in the sky for that night in chicago. hehe, extreme penguin close-up!




after that, derek was totally tired. we ride the bus back to the hotel, and derek lays down for a nap. i find out where a good place for chicago deep-dish pizza is, and order take-out for dinner. i walk around downtown for about on hour till it's ready then go back to the hotel to wake up derek with pizza. he was pleased.