Last sightseeing day in Chicago

Another fantastic day in Chicago, but today I wore sun screen.

Started the morning off with a tour, took us through the theater district where even the McDonalds had marquees.

On over to Chinatown for a glimpse and I mean a glimpse, should have probably gotten off and wandered around for some real flavor.

 Next to the sight where Mrs O'Learys cow kicked over the lantern and started the Chicago Fire, it is now a place they train firefighters.

 Next to Little Italy where the most exciting thing was the statue of Joe DiMaggio

 Then we went through Greektown and that was such fun, there was not even anything worth taking a picture of, well that tour might have been a bust. Oh well.

We went past the Art Institute and I got a good picture of the lion, notice his tail did not turn green as everyone touches it for good luck.

 

 Lunch, we wanted to go to the Billy Goat Tavern, this is the fellow that tried to take the goat to the baseball game for a mascot and they would not let him in, so he put a hex on the Cubs and ooops it is doing a good job.

The tavern is in a pretty dark seedy place and when you enter this harsh old man yells, step down, get in line, give'm your order.

 The old ugly guy taking the order says "What you have" you say Cheezborger, he says no Double Cheeze best we have, and yells our Double Cheeze and that is what you are going to get.

 It was good and it was a fun place to visit.

 After lunch we were going to cheap out and not take the river tour but then oh what the heck we are only here once, so Architecture River Cruise here we come.

 It was a really nice relaxing tour and a really good way to see things from a different angle.

 The sun was shinning just right to catch the gold leaf glowing on top of the building that now belongs to the Hard Rock Cafe.

 The Trump building looks pretty awesome looking straight up.

 We went out into Lake Michigan to turn around just before the lock.

 The old Pump house, one of the only two buildings that did not burn down during that big fire.

 Okay Ron is not fussy on heights but he went up the Hancock Tower with me for a 360 degree view of the city, it was spectacular.

 He had lots of trouble looking waaaaay down.

 We did not get to take a bus tour of the north as the Cubbies are playing all three days we are here, so tomorrow we will go take in the game and see Wrigley Field.  The area north looks lovely.

 But I thought the windows were a little dirty so took some time to clean a few on the outside.

 Hard to get a decent picture of Millenium Park but this was a picture on a wall, you can seen the bean and the amphitheater.

 Now I thought we should ride over to Navy Pier but Ron says it looks close, well my dogs were a little sore in my sandals by the time we got there.  It being Saturday the Pier was full but we had a good time looking around and listened for a short time to a band playing at the far end.

Friday the city was busy but today the city was crazy, just so many people.  The L coming home was jam packed full but we had a good day and look forward to the baseball game tomorrow.