Monday, July 19, 2010

Chicago for the weekend

Bertrand, Amaury and I went to Chicago for the weekend. I managed to see an old friend, Laura, from Tucson who just moved to Chicago a few weeks ago as a pharmacy resident at an ER hospital. There is a burnt boat and a car on a bridge because the movie Transformers 3 was being filmed. We tried the deep dish pizza at Lou Malnati's, Italian beef sand which is Portillo's, steak dinner at Wildfire and brunch around Clark/division area. We also did the other tourist stuff like Millennium Park, Willis Tower (formerly Sears), architectural boat tour on the river (thanks to Emily's recommendation), a tiny bit of shopping along Michigan Avenue, Navy Pier, and The Art Institute. It was pretty hot and humid but we still had a lot of good times to counter that!

Up in the arch with Melody and Bogey, Elizabeth's dog I took care of while she was gone

View from inside the top of the arch. One picture you can see the Purina campus and the other the Cardinal's baseball stadium. Mississippi River is not the pretties river for sure...but still fun to see and do with good company ;)

4th of July concert under the arch

 
VIP tickets to a concert under the arch thanks to Purina for 4th of July with Bertrand, Amaury and Elizabeth and night out on Laclede landing!