(The traffic doesn't look bad in this picture, but it got to be just like the 405 at rush hour.)
(Getting closer....)
(...and closer.)
The first place we went to was Wrigley Field. We really liked the area around Wrigley Field. It's called Wrigleyville, and there's a lot of pubs and restaurants and open-air cafes. There are cub flags flying everywhere, and then the stadium is in the middle of the neighborhood, like it was just another building.
(Ernie Banks aka "Mr. Cub")
(A statue of Cub's announcer Harry Caray)
And the famous Wrigley Field sign...
We walked around Wrigleyville for a little bit and bought some souvenirs.
Then walking back to the car, we saw this big baseball....
(Oh, and the egg too...)
Then after Wrigley Field, we drove back downtown to visit the Sears Tower. Here are some pictures driving around downtown.....
(This is the Art Institute of Chicago)
( <--That is the Sears Tower)
Here's a closer look..........
After parking, we paid $12 each to go to the Sky Deck on the Sears Tower. Before we got on the elevator, we watched a video that explained that the Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world until a skyscraper in Dubai surpassed its measurements. At 1,730 feet tall, (including the t.v. antennas) the Sears Tower remains the tallest building in the United States and in all of North America, since it was built in 1973.
After watching the video, we got on the elevator that took us to the Sky Deck on the 103rd floor. The elevator ride from the 2nd floor to the 103rd took 60 seconds! Here are some pictures from the Sky Deck overlooking Chicago....
Music from Ferris Bueler was playing in my head at this point.....
(See the street waaaaay down there?)
After the Sears Tower, we went to the Field Museum of Natural History. This place was huge...
We only walked around one out of three floors, and we didn't even get to see all of it. But we did get to see Sue. Sue is the largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton ever found. Sue was found in South Dakota...
Here are some other things we saw....
Directly across the museum is Soldier Field, which is where the Chicago Bears play...
(It is called Soldier Field because it's dedicated to the men and women in the armed forces.)
We left the Field Museum around 4pm. This bridge says CHICAGO WHITE SOX on it...
And it leads to the bridge that took us into Michigan....
Both camera batteries died at this point, so I have NO pictures of Michigan. But that's ok because it was getting dark anyway. Michigan itself was not interesting, however Vincent did get pulled over for speeding (the officer let him go with a warning) and we encountered some car problems. Despite those little set backs, we made it to the Canadian border at midnight. We spent about 45 minutes at the immigration office getting our visas, and then we were on our way. I slept from the border until Toronto. We got to our hotel in Toronto at about 3am on Thursday, September 17th.
TOTAL MILES TRAVELED FROM LOS ANGELES TO TORONTO: 2,522 miles!
Blogs to come will include pictures of the city, things we see, and things we do.
To be continued.....
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