Well, our second day started off with breakfast at a Swedish restaurant by Kevin and Les' apartment. Les wouldn't be joining us because he had to work for the next couple days. After breakfast we headed back downtown to get started!
We picked up Go-Cards which got us into all the major attractions, and even let us jump to the front of the line in a few places. Money well spent! It rained periodically through the day but we were usually inside, or on the trolley for the worst of it. We jumped on the Gray Line which was a trolley-looking thing that made a loop through Chicago with a driver narrating. The first place we jumped off was the Sears tower. When you're 103 stories above Chicago you get a hell of a view!
Then we got back down to street level and jumped on the trolley. After driving around for a little while the driver pointed out the beginning of Route 66. For some reason I thought it started further east, but that shows what I know! We jumped off the trolley to get a couple pictures of the Route 66 sign. After jumping on the trolley again we headed out to Adler Planetarium and took some great shots of the city before heading over to Navy Pier.
We got tickets for the next architectural boat tour.
If you're ever in Chicago, and you have any interest in architecture, take this tour! It probably helped that we had a great tour guide, Briggett. She was really outgoing, very knowledgeable and clearly passionate about her job! Unfortunately the batteries for both the cameras died on the boat tour...
It was probably around three in the afternoon so we got something to eat at a little food court on Navy Pier. Next we took a ride on the ferris wheel, and walked around the pier before jumping back on the last trolley of the day.
The trolley dropped us back downtown and we took a quick stroll through Millennium park. There were a couple cool things to see in the park like the giant silver bean, and what I can only describe as a wading fountain. The fountain is on one edge of the park, with two pillars on either side of it and the water is only about an inch deep. The cool thing about the pillars was the displays built into them. Sometimes they would display water cascading over rocks, and water would be running down the face of the pillars, and the other picture was a woman who would 'spit' water out of the pillar!
After the park we were ready to call it a day, so we headed back to Kevin and Les' apartment, and had some leftover pizza.
