Downtown Drivers - PM 4

Well we accomplished alot today and saw alot more of Chicago. We started off driving down the tollway to the Chicago core. We parked at the Navy Pier parking garage and jumped on a seadog speedboat trip which sped us through the Chicago harbor and then down the Chicago river which recently graduated from 'Toxic' to 'Highly Polluted' apparently.

After that trip we grabbed our first meal of the day at where else but McDonalds. Not just any McDonalds though, the 'McDonalds of the Future' at Navy Pier. With a seperate desert bar, fancy elctro static thingies and a snazzy paint job it's a pretty cool place.

Continuing on the journey we then took a cab to the John Hancock Center where we took an elevator to the observation deck where we looked out onto the city and went out on the open air deck. The sounds of the city sure are loud even up that high...

After that we went shopping along North Madison Avenue at The Apple Store, Nike Town, Virgin, and others. While walking the strip we came across a lady who every few minutes would stop walking, and start yelling at the top of her lungs about how evil the spanish were and how they muck up Chicago or something like that. It was quite the experience and as we walked away from her we could still hear her yelling for quite some time. We also took a look at the rocks implanted into the Chicago Tribune building. There you can find everything from Moon rocks to pieces of the former New York World Trade Center to pieces of the Great Pyramids in Egypt.

Feeling hungry we went to the California Pizza Kitchen where we each had a personal pizza. Then we went and saw 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' which turned out to be a much better, if not slightly different movie then I had expected.

After all that excitement we started heading back to the hotel (getting lost along the way again) and now here we are. Time for bed once again, good night everyone!