We met up with our friend Suzann for breakfast - a typical diner in the middle of a big city - and went on to see the Historical museum of Chicago. It was ok - we have all been to better museums - but at least it gave us a small insight in what Chicago is and has been about.
After the museum Suzann went to work and we carried on by ourselves. We used our feet and walked up and down the two main streets Michigan and State. Lot of posh stores, lot of strange people and a couple of nice parks. Nothing all that exciting happened except we got some shopping done. Erlend and I bought some shoes, and I added a IPAD (and I am SO happy with it so far)
We jumped back in the car and drove over to our motel, which was a dump, and chilled for some hours until we were to meet Suzann again later in the evening. I guess we are getting old, because more often than not we all need to take short naps in the evening...
Alcohol was out of the picture, we were driving pretty early the next morning, so we all agreed on a relaxing evening. Suzann took us to a pretty sweet sushi place and all three of us enjoyed sushi, Having lived in California for some months I have gotten hooked to the raw fish, and although Simon and Erlend were a little sceptic they both enjoyed once they tasted it. After that we took a train downtown and walked around some more. Chicago has a cool waterfront with beaches downtown. We were there in the evening, but I can only guess how lively it will get on hot days during the summer. They also have the world's largest fountain..... but we came to late and they had turned the water of.
We ended the evening going up to a bar at the top of the John Hancock building (it was on the 96th floor) and grabbing coffee or water. They actually served still and sparkling Voss water. Kind of surreal sitting on top of one of the largest buildings in America drinking water from Voss :)
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