chicago!

ok, we love smu, even at the millennium park. that's where we parked our car after a 6 hour overnight drive. parking cost $16 for the whole day, and that's considered cheap.

this cute bean thing, in which y0u can see the skyscrappers that make the chicago skyline.

walking by the old navy store, on our way to the sears tower. who can resist shopping? even ambrose can't. ask him about the white sox cap. haha.


the chicago theatre.

the chicago temple, apparently the tallest church structure in the world, home to the first united methodist church, and er, a bank.


more detours that prevented us from reaching the sears tower. i know sharon would love that if only it were a t-shirt.

there it is. the sears tower-once upon a time the world's tallest building-until the petronas towers decided to build a taller antena that inched them out.


that's me and michael. hah.
crap, where are his legs!?!

a rather meaningless picture. can u see the hancock building? haha, neither can i.

chicago - home of the blues (louis armstrong) and...

billy graham. haha, i dunno which is he though.

see, we learnt a lot about chicago up in the sears tower skydeck. we had to. we paid $11.95 to get up there!

next stop: navy pier

detour 1: CBOT

detour 2: some falungong protest.

detour 3: nah, the guys were buying stuff off the dollar menu from the macdonald's opposite. debbie made me tahan till we reached navy pier, but i was seriously dying of hunger.


detour 4: playing with water in front of this cool water wall which has a screen (i cant remember what it's called) @ millennium park

finally: navy pier, except that my camera was dying so i don't have the pictures. argh.

and lunch. finally.

it wasn't even that long. but it was good.

after lunch, we tried to walk along the pier, but we ended up sleeping for a good half hour. i got sunburnt. haha. dunkin' donuts and coffee in the morning didn't help at all.

don't really have very many pictures from hence forth cos it's all in debbie's and gabe's camera.

but we did have dinner at the famous cheesecake factory @ the john hancock building. i had the Godiva chocolate cheesecake, which was so so rich. argh, i so need to put up pictures of that.

wanted to go to a blues bar to listen to some music,but we had to get back to the car @ millennium park, so we had to walk to the metra station in the rain. and we passed by... the hershey's shop!


yup, that's the world's largest hershey's bar. it is 5 pounds, which is about 2.5 kg i think.


sigh, i'll put up more pictures next time. anyway, we couldnt get into the bar cos we're under 21 and there was a $10 cover charge anyway. we left at about 12.30am. got home at about 5.30am.

the next day was filled with drama. gabe got fired for some stupid reason. sigh. was quite sad the entire day. WAT will be so different without him. for one, we have to go to penn and boston without him, just the 3 of us, which leaves ambrose and i to drive. will miss his company, of all pple who had to get fired and leave. but i guess i'm quite glad for him cos his heart is really back home anyway. hope all the admin stuff gets settled :(

super super hungry now. waiting for the rest to come back to go for dinner with nick cos he's leaving tomm for thailand. okok, yongchang just appeared, and gabe's outside. sigh, he cant even step in anymore. :(