Chicago vacation - July 13, 2008

Hey there again. It's Sunday and we just came from worship service. Now we are on our way downtown, wanna come with me?

We stopped off for some lunch and Momma put this pickel in my mouth. It's pretty good but hard to eat with only 2 teeth! Daddy, take it out, please, before somebody sees me.

It's beautiful here. The weather is great.

This is the Chicago River - no brainer, huh? Isn't it pretty?

Guess where we are now? Millennium Park, duh. It's a 24.5 acre park. I sure don't want to get lost here! Hey Daddy, come on let's go.

O.K., now this was cool. This is the famous Crown Fountain. There are 2 fountains facing each other, each with a different face that changes every few minutes. There are 1,000 faces total. They are 50 feet tall and they both spout water from their mouths. Not every face will spout water so you just have to wait. When they are not spouting, the water is coming down from the top like a fountain.

Here's my momma.

This is Cloud Gate, aka: the big silver bean. It weights 110 tons!!! It does some cool reflections. We had a lot of fun here.

This entire park is wild. This is the Jay Pritzker Pavilion where they have concerts. It has 4000 fixed seats and holds another 7000 people on the Great Lawn!

After we left Millennium Park we walked to the Buckingham Memorial Fountain. It shoots water 135 feet high! Here's me and my Daddy.

Momma would have loved to go to a play while we were in Chicago but I wasn't so sure I would like that so we didn't go.

You were asking earlier how we got around town. We used the "L" (elevated) Trains and city buses. Most people in Chicago use public transportation, parking costs too much in the city.

I'm having a little milk while we wait on our train. Look, I'm holding my own bottle! Yeah, don't expect me to do it again any time soon, though. I like Momma and Daddy to hold it most of the time. See ya at the other end of the line.