Downtown Chicago

Today our little touring group has expanded from 2 to 6 ( should have been 8 but the other 2 didn't get out of bed.....

Back on the shuttle, back on the train , back into town....first stop mobile shop... easily fixed due to user error.
Then it was onward down Michigan Ave to walk the Golden Mile.... named appropriately cause you need a pot of gold to buy anything..... Being Australian we  walk keeping to the left but here they keep to the right, which means we had the tendancy to walk into peoples way.

We saw stores like Cartier,  Tiffany's, Saks etc but didn't dare browse inside as I don't think we could afford the shopping bags..... We even noticed some of the reasonable shops had this air of "expensive" on this street... for example my Carly's favourite spot Forever 21 has been named Forever XX1 complete with Chandelier.

Chicago is such a beautiful city, not just the buildings but the street scape is just beautiful too.... I will add some pictures of the cleverly way they have been done...

We kept walking until we came to the John Hancock Tower. There we went up to the 92nd floor sky deck to get the most fabulous 360 deg views of Chicago and beyond..... That  Lake Michigan is some lake ... it seems to go on for ever... good spot for a cruise ship if they would only dig a canal to get to it..

Up in the tower it was suggested to us by a Chicagoian ( hmm no sure what to call a local ) that for a real taste of Chicago we should go to Giordano's for a deep stuff pizza..... so out came google maps on the iphone and we followed the little blue ball to our destination..... all I can say is yum and we ordered the smallest one....


Then it was back down Michigan Ave but on the otherside of the street..... 

One thing I must mention are the rotation doors.... nearly every store seems to have them.... these have proved to be alittle of challenge as the locals are so used to them that they move through them so quickly they have them rotating  at a speed..... it is like taking your life into your hands as you try to negotiate the opening as it spins past and exiting is just a bad... we all hold our breathe as Verna moves through them, as she hit her head on the glass whilst moving out of one the other day....