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thursday, 16th–chicago, rivernorth best western hotel
so were on a family vacation, pretty fun so far but a couple mishaps. we left on the 13th, and were due back on the 25th (not homesick yet by far)
were hitting chicago first, cause weve never really been, with the exception of a few layovers. weve seen navy pier (and watched a pretty fun fireworks show yesterday night), and i went to see the bean today, officially named Cloud Gate, a huge shiny stainless steel structure shaped like, well, a bean. you can walk under it and look up into a hollowed out mirror-like curve. ill upload some pictures once i get home and once again have access to pierre. so that and the beckingham fountain (both are in millenium park) which is gigantic and has huge beautiful sea horses around the central part of it. gorgeous (again, pictures later). we also walked around and took the subway (so much nicer than new yorks!) we came across the water tower–one of the only buildings to survive the fire, and saw the hancock building and the aqua tower (very cool looking) then we ran into an adorable, beautiful old presbyterian church that was covered in ivy, and the courtyard inside was even prettier. then mom and i ate at jimmy johns freaky fast freaky good gourmet sandwiches. one of the best veggie subs ive ever had, and easily modified to be vegan :]
the mishap i mentioned though, is that my neck is out. i woke up two days ago and i couldnt move at all! my muscles all up and down my neck and back are seized (and very painful) icyhot and advil were making it a bit better, but during a drive to racine wisconsin to see family, i reached back behind my head and a level 4 pain shot to a level 8/9 in a split second. so we went to prompt care and im on muscle relaxers along with some kind of magic advil stuff and pain pills. definite inprovement. i can do pretty much everything except my own hair (which is a little awkward).
so were meeting up with some family later tonight and were gonna hit a vegan restaurant called chicago diner www.veggiediner.com which looks and sounds absolutely delicious! maybe ill sway a couple of my carnivorous family members…
(update: the chicago diner ROCKED i ordered a vegan gyro-delicious, and a chocolate chip cookie dough “milk”shake that makes me want to move to chicago just so i can get one every day, the waiter we got was awesome, he made suggestions and made sure that the food was perfect, which it was. i got a slice of some layer chocolate cake to go, and ate it later in the hotel room. it was sinfully good, but super rich. 5 STARS!!)
anyway, updates later– im on the lobby computer and im freezing my fingers off!
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