Chicago

• We left St. Joseph, Michigan with lots of enthusiasm because the lake is quiet. We decided to go straight across to Chicago. The view from the lake is spectacular, like all big cities it just appears and starts to get bigger and bigger. We called the Chicago Yacht Club and they had dockage for us. It's right in the heart of the city. The yacht club asked us for our burgee to fly it over their club, quite an honor. The restaurant is unbelievable, (are you getting tired of my writing about food) everything from oysters to prime rib to salmon, all kinds of fish and of course all the normal stuff.
• You walk across the street and your at Millennium Park. We went to the Jay Pritzker Pavillion and saw the Chicago Symphony. A little culture never hurt no one. To my surprise, Mike agreed to take a double decker bus tour. We started at the Navy Pier, where the first thing we did was take a ride on the ferris wheel. This is not my favorite ride, I'll take a roller coaster any day over a ferris wheel. At the pier there is a stained glass window gallery; it's amazing what these artists can do. We walked for three hours.
• Some of the other sights were The Sears Tower, Art Institute, Field Museum of Natural History, Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium. Very busy and exhausting. We saw where Oprah lives, the top two floors of a beautiful high rise in the middle of the city. Mike was disappointed we didn't get tickets for her show. Ha, Ha.
• The place I liked best in Chicago was the Millennium Park. You could spend hours there and no charge for it. The crown fountain, it consists of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers project video images from Chicago citizens. It has a large fountain with gargoyles in it, they could scare any kid.
• As you can see from the picture, Mike found someone to listen to him forever. Bob Newhart was at the pier and told Mike to sit on his couch. All over the pier there are environmental globes. They illustrate the problems in the world today.