Yea....Chicago is a really windy city....Silver Bean???!!!

We all left College Park in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday, and embarked on a 14 HOUR ride to Chicago, IL. We all got there exhausted and gross from the drive, but we still somehow managed to wait for Chicago's famous deep dish pizza for over an hour...the long wait paid off especially after seeing Nacho(He had an awesome pizza-shaped haircut!) and of course the deep dish pizza.

Sunday, March 14th 2010,

So today was our first full day in Chicago (at least for most of us). Everyone was pretty exhausted this morning from the long drive but still managed to get up and about. We, well some of us(Ad, Annie, Anna, Dana, Dale, Ivy, Jennifer, Sahar, Semme) started the day off with a good game of UNO, in which Ivy and AD lost, twice!! :( while the others went grocery shopping(boring) ;)

We later headed out for lunch. Some of us were brave enough to try Indian food(which I(Ivy) thought was really good) and Annie and Dale bored themselves with regular old burgers. Then it was time for sightseeing(YAAAY!!)

Here's the deal, we all had heard about the green river, and we were all kinda excited to go see it. Turns out it flows backwards(cool, right?) and it is actually green for St. Patrick's Day.

We split up into groups and ventured out to see what Chicago had in store for us.

The strangest thing 2 of the groups saw was this huge, shiny bean-shaped structure better known as the silver bean. It reflected a big portion of the city, and produced cool images of ourselves. We're still trying to figure out the purpose of the "silver bean".

Chris's group came across a spaceship "thing" at the Navy Pier, which arbitrarily shook and had some spacey time-continuum thingy!(Chris explained it best!)

SHOPPING! a word that the girls appreciated and got to experience today in Chicago. Dale fell in love with Forever21 and got a larger than life headband. Hair was flying everywhere given Chicago's extra windy weather, but that did not stop us in our quest to know and experience the city.

By the end of the day, everyone came to the conclusion that Chicago deserves its given title, "The Windy City", and should even be named "The Magnificent City", for its richness in culture and architecture.

Tacos for dinner made everyone happy :), so happy that everyone got the energy to tackle each other during a game of "move your feet".

After such an eventful day, we definitely can't wait for tomorrow and the rest of the week.

Until later, adios

Love :)

Dale and Ivy

PS. Pictures coming soon.