chicago continued.

okay well atleast i find it amusing to write (this is my kind of my diary to remember whats happening anyway) and a few devoted followers are better than none!

chicago reminds me a lot of brisbane in a lot of ways. a lot bigger, of course, but similar architecture and business districts, and a nice feel to the city. we were staying in a little neighbourhood called Wrigleyville, which is just north of the city. its a short ride on the metro rail (above ground, rusty tracks, fast trains whipping around corners and wooden station platforms - it was heaven for me and Kyp to take photos). (photo: our local church, across the road)

the apartment was in a yellow fall leafy neighbourhood with little brick terrace houses, we were staying in a trendy apartment - 3 bedrooms, a small porch out the back (a little rotten almost, and looking out onto the alleyway), and windows all along the front.

the luxury of this apartment, of course, was that on one particularly stormy morning we slept in until about 12pm... however our activities besides that included:

wandering down to the lakeside, hiring bikes and biking about 5-7miles along lake michigan, going on a boat tour up and down the river to view all the architecture (first sky-scraper ever was built in chicago), and skipped paying $15 to go to the observatory deck at the John Hancock Building and instead caught the elevator to floor 96 and drank cocktails (or the dreaded mocktail, hahaha) while sitting in the "house" seat and watching the sun set over chicago.

We also made a trip to the Cheesecake Factory (i had previously tried a delicious Oreo cheesecake in boston) so mum could try it out, where we got each of our meals literally on a serving platter, rather than an actual plate. Needless to say, mum's meal fed her that night, and then all three of us the next night. now why is it that so many americans are overweight...?

we also got a Godiva chocolate cheesecake to "take-out", which was lovely, but extraordinarily rich.