Jay Langhurst - Summer Trip #1 - jlanghurst@gmail.com

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The Chicago trip was a surprise for my friends, and it was a very educational experience. We were driven up to Galesburg, Illinois where the train travels from there to Chicago every morning and then took the train back to Galesburg that evening. After we arrived in Chicago we walked a few blocks from Union Station to The Sears Tower. After that, we caught a cab to the Water Tower district where we looked at the stores in the area and went over to the Hancock building. At the Hancock building we tried to get into the Cheesecake Factory restaurant but it was kind of crowded. We decided to save money by eating in, of all places, McDonald's. After we ate we took yet another crazy cab to the Field Museum of Natural History. Following that rousing activity we walked along Lake Michigan and over to Buckingham Fountain. We thought we might be able to get a cab there, but we had to walk to the art museum to locate one. Then it was off to the train station where we were whisked back to Galesburg. Not bad for one day.

Pictures

  • Most of the pictures of Chicago can be found in Panoramics from Chicago
  • A recreation of a room inside an Egyptian pyramid at the Field Museum of Natural HistoryA recreation of a room inside an Egyptian pyramid at the Field Museum of Natural History
  • The awe-inspring Buckingham FountainThe awe-inspiring Buckingham Fountain
    • Things we learned in Chicago
  • High buildings cost a lot of money
  • The Cheesecake Factory restaurant is a scary place
  • Yaks are stubborn (courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History)
  • We need more pictures
  • Grandpa, we switched tracks!
  • McDonald's is more expensive in Chicago
  • Millie would like her wedding in the Chicago Water Tower McDonald's
  • Lake Michigan is dirty and full of boats
  • Don't go to the Field Museum unless you're Millie
  • Grandpa, we switched tracks!
  • When the majority of the public goes to a museum, they take on the intellectual status of illiterate children who have an extreme compulsion to push buttons and stare at people cleaning dinosaur bones
  • If it sounds like a girl, it's a boy
  • If it sounds like a boy, it's a girl
  • Grandpa, we switched tracks!
  • He used to work on my floor, but now he's a social worker
  • A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do
  • Well, maybe you should have asked
  • I don't want you to choke
  • Chew and swallow that before you put any more in your mouth. You have to chew.
  • Grandpa, we switched tracks!
  • Behold, the terrific behemoth that is the ancient, gnarled, witch's claw!
  • There's the green, abrasive side PLUS the smooth, massaging yellow side. But, what really convinced me that the sponge is true is the secret, inner soap layer. Will you allow the soap into your life?
  • Grandpa, we switched tracks!
  • Grandpa, we switched tracks!
  • If you're wondering what "Grandpa, we switched tracks!" means, e-mail me

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