2007-05-26

Text by YC:

TOGoS and YC were dropped of by Dianne at 6:45 for Van Galder bus at the Union. We're heading Chicago and plan to stay till 28th when TOGoS has to leave for Europe.

YC told TOGoS that once Van Galder driver made a mistake by taking the receipt instead of the ticket away so she was able to use the 'extra, spare' ticket for her next trip to Chicago! Ya!

Saturday

• Bus(ses) to Beloit, Rockford, Chicago.
• YC and I get off, walk a few blocks to the hotel.
• We get a room. A smoking room. YC had mishead the receptionist as saying "non-smoking king room".
• Go back to reception, get a different room.
• We get 1112 (on 11th floor). It is not ready.
• Leave bags with the bag holding guy and go check out Navy Pier.
• We search for places to eat and bathrooms.
• We eat a burrito and see a stupid pirate show.
• YC checks out the build-a-bear thingy place.
• We wander around Navy Pier some more. I mention that someone we pass looks like Olivewallaby.
• We ride Swings for 10$.
• Go back to hotel, put stuff away.
• Walk down to Michigan Ave, check out Millenium Park.
• We decide to go check out any Vietnamese restaurant near the Argyle station. This being the first train trip of the weekend, we get somewhat confused and have to have someone sitting nearby tell us that we really are at the northbound Red Line station.
• We ride around the subway/train for a while, get off at Argyle, go to Thai (oops) restaurant, talk about how "restaurant" is a hard word to spell, eat enough food to get 'really full' after ordering an extra bowl of rice.
• We wanted to ride the Yellow Line, but it was closed. So we rode about halfway to the end of the Purple Line instead. We then took the Red Line back to Clybourn in attempt to go to a certain dance club that YC had picked out. We didn't really know how to get there though, and by the time we got to Ashton (the place is supposedly on Fullerton) we were too tired (and still full) to walk farther or dance, so we caught a bus back south to the Blue Line, which we transferred off of at Jackson onto the Red Line, which we walked along to Monroe just to kicks (I think the distance between the stations is less than the length of either station) before catching the train to Grand and going back to the hotel.

I dreamt that we went into that dance club and bought peanuts and some drinks. As we were about to leave we looked at the bill. It was for 224$. We started thinking of ways to sneak out.

2007-05-27

• Got up at about 8:30. Went down to lobby to eat breakfast and pilfer some snaques.
• Walked along Grand, caught a bus to the Blue Line station (I have "Green Line" written in my journal - we meant to take the Green Line, but apparently forgot when we found the Blue Line station).
• Took Blue Line (again, written down as "Green Line") to Oak Park.
• Walked along Oak Park north looking for some Fran Lloyd Wright house.
• Walked along Chicago, bought and drank Boba Milk tea. Made some videos of sucking starch balls through straws. We were becoming tired in the feet.
• Eventually we found the FLW houses, but by that time we had to leave to catch the architecture tour. We checked out a cool playground on the way out.
• Green Line back downtown.
• Architecture tour. Got told about some buildings and trees and parks and things for 12$.
• Walked to the lake and ate some food. Planned a visit to the Hancock observatory and pizza at Giordano's.
• We ordered some to-go pizza and waited around outside Giordano's, planning to go in and out real quick so we could make it to the observatory for sunset.
• In our rush we pissed off the waitor by not tipping him.
• And at the entrance to the observatory we found out it was going to cost 10$ for each of us and take half an hour to get up. So we didn't do that.
• We went and bought a postcard from Walgreens so we could tip the waitor with the change.
• Cleared up that mess.
• Back to the hotel.
• I tried to quicken the drying of my socks by ironing them.
• Drew a crappy map of chicago in my journal.

I've got more journal to copy over, but some folks want to use this machine and I want to head up and bursh teeth and maybe attempt to make sleeps in the dorm -__p. I'll work on this some more later and hopefully get some pics uploaded