In the Heat of a Summer Night, In the Land of the Dollar Bill

So we have successfully made it through Chicago! We are on our way to Ohio now to visit Heather and Beez, but we have to tell you about our awesome weekend in The Land of the Dollar Bill and Leroy Brown.
Saturday night we hadn't quite figured Chicago out yet. We decided to get a hotel outside of Chicago because all of the nice ones in the city were booked, and we couldn't park the big rig anywhere on those city streets anyway. We settled on Hammond, Indiana, and thought we'd take the train in on Saturday night for a nice dinner and to sort of check out what's what in the Windy City. Well, Transformers Three had the nerve to be filming on a Saturday evening on Michigan Avenue which is comparable to Newbury Street or Downtown Crossing in Boston. So of course, everything is busy and backed up and our train was a half an hour late.
However, our luck started to change once we made it into the city. We had a delicious steak dinner at a restuarant called Foulton's, which was right on the river, (Thanks Ma and Pa Conlon!) where we told them it was our one week anniversary! :)
On Sunday we headed into the city again to be touristy and see the sights. We first went to the Navy Pier which is a big pier with music, restaurants, and a huge ferris wheel. There are also a bunch of hot shots in expensive boats showing off up and down the pier, which is kind of cool too.
After lunch at the pier we headed to Millennium Park which has a bunch of huge art sculptures, some of which you can catch in Kanye West videos. There is one in particular called "The Bean" that we will post pics of. It's like a huge silver kidney bean, and all of the contours in it reflect the city in awesome ways, sometimes crunching the reflection up, sometimes spreading it way out. Tons of people take pictures of themselves or the reflection of the city in the bean. If you google the bean you can see all kinds of artsy pics of it. We took our own. :)
After The Bean we took a cab to the Lincoln Park Zoo which was a little disappointing. It was too humid for any of the animals to be out in their outside habitats and the ones we saw inside were sleepy and lazy! It was pretty funny to see the apes sleeping though, because they are so much like us. Pics of that too, I believe.
Our last stop of the night was a baseball game at Wrigley Field. The Cubbies were playing the Phillies, and Bobby hates the Cubs but kind of likes the Phillies--so I bought a Cubs tank top just to pester him. We ate some deep dish pizza and drank some Old Style beer (Illinois local beer) and took a cab home around ten. I still can't get over that it stays so light here into the night. At nine o'clock the sun is just setting. It is great.
We are cutting Mount Rushmore out of our trip due to engine troubles with the RV. We just don't want to push the Old Girl too far on her first big trip. Maybe we will see Mt. Rushmore on our 1st anniversary. We can't wait to get to Ohio to have some Coneys and hang with HP and Beez and their lil boy Connor. We think we might be back in the bubble. Hoping the pics post!