Cloud Gate Chicago

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This is THE place! Never thought that I would take to a place so quick, but I have to say that I have with Chicago! The view of downtown as we approached on the interstate was amazing. So many tall buildings so concentrated together but looking majestic. Then our first night out at a local bar, such friendly people, the …

Sunday 9/16/12:

It was time to regretfully say goodbye to Nashville – what a special place! The last few days in Nashville flew by far too quickly and we enjoyed it immensely. We decided to schlep all the way to Chicago, which would put us a day ahead of our original schedule to give us time to head to the New England area before New …

Today we had another sleep in. The alarm went off at 10am! We've needed to catch up on our sleep since Disneyland.
We got ourselves sorted and went for a stroll down the magnificent Mile (Michigan Ave). First stop was Macy's where Danielle got her makeup done in MAC, and bought heaps of makeup!
Meanwhile the girls and I checked out the …

Woke up this morning with a bad back - sleeping on too soft a bed. Today we are heading out for a boat ride on the lake where we get to see Trump Tower, Sears Tower, the Chicago Tribune building, NBC studios (home of The Jerry Springer show). Our tour guide on the boat was really funny but sadly couldn't convince us to stay outside when the heavens …

I flew into Chicago on Sunday the 28th. I got here pretty late after my plane got delayed almost 4 hours. I had spent an entire day traveling and wanted to go to bed as soon as I got here to try and keep my sleeping pattern in tact so I was pretty disapointed I had done nothing interesting.
The next morning I woke up bright an early, so around …

So, I was in Chicago for a week for work - my new job had me doing training in Chicago.

And I thought I'd written a blog about it, but clearly...hadn't!!

So, let's get started...

I arrived into Chicago on Monday afternoon and got the Blue Line into the city and transferred up to the hotel. My hotel was just one block off …

Visite de Chicago 2ème journée …

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Our first day was a long haul but it turned out to be a great adventure. Started out our day at 4am leaving Brockport, NY. Having no complications on the road except getting lost once, we made it to Chicago at 3pm central.Stopping for gas twice we made it through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and stopping in Illinois.
When we got to …

... a nice bar with reasonably priced, good, locally brewed beer so we made the most of that. One of the highlights for me was the Cloud Gate in Millenium Park which is also know as the bean. This is a big polished steel sculpture in the shape of a bean that ...

... architectural style. After freshening up, we took a walk in Millenium Park across the road. We saw "The Bean" (actually called Cloud Gate... thanks Google) which is a big, shiny, metal sculpture. We also saw a huge ampitheatre where a concert was ...

... sculptures there, like 2 huge block fountains with video of people on the front of each, and the coolest and most recognisable "The Cloud Gate", or the Bean as everyone calls it (see the cool pictures!) The next day we walked back through the Loop to ...

... ! Just so impressed. Had a wander over to the Millennium Park and did the standard touristy piccy by the 'bean’ – or Cloud Gate to those who use its real name. Strolled through the city, it was so big and beautiful...neither of us could take ...

... by Frank Gehry where the city holds symphonies and outdoor music events.  Probably the biggest attraction to millenium park is the "cloud gate" sculpture...better known as the big bean.  Of course, I had to do what everyone else does...and ...

... to get around the city for the day and to try and save our feet a little. We visited the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Cloud Gate or 'the bean' as it's known, which is a wicked sculpture made of stainless steel in Millennium Park that gives a ...

... is cold! After touring round the city admiring some amazing buildings, we decided to get off at Millennium Park to see a piece of artwork called Cloud Gate but known locally as "the bean". Very cool! As part of the hop on hop off tour bus we went on the ...

... architectural buildings, such as the Jay Pritzker Pavillion (an outdoor concert venue), the interactive Crown Fountain and the iconic Cloud Gate sculpture (see pics). The sun was shining as we walked around and the whole area looked beautiful. Jim had ...

... BP Bridge - a stainless steel curvy bridge that got very hot in the sun. In the park we spent ages looking at the Cloud Gate, a really shiny stainless steal sculpture by Anish Kapoor that the Chicagoans have called ‘the bean’. The bean was ...

... probable an intergalactic portal as an art object in a City Park.  Somehow Chicago is the perfect home for Cloud Gate. Chicago’s a city of contrasts and one that easily evokes metaphors.   Soaring buildings of myriad color and shape ...