We went and got some Deep Dish pizza at Giordano's. We made the lunch special which was a personal pizza with fries and a drink for $10. Bonus for us. Plus, with our hotel only 3 blocks away we could bring back the leftovers for the fridge/microwave for later.
After dropping off our pizza we headed back towards the pizza place and kept walking so we could get to the "Bean."
There was going to be a jazz festival happening over the weekend (this was a Thursday) so they were busy getting tents set up for vendors and such. Very neat and a nice location for this. The concerts were going to be taking place at the oddly shaped silver thing you see below.
The Bean:
It was just so neat how it was super shiny, reflected things and was just cool. I enjoyed checking out the bean very much. Luke wanted to move on. So we did.
Where the Jazz Festival would be taking place. Such a nice outdoor concert venue and love how the speakers are all over the criss cross work over head and not just on the sides.
They had a nice little flower/nature garden that we walked around the outside of and not through. On the one side was a little "river" where people were sitting and putting their feet in.
We took a bridge kind of up and over a street and continued on our way to other sights.
I will say that I am very impressed by Chicago and all the open space they have and green spaces. Just walking through the city there were lots of little squares and greenery between buildings for taking a lunch or just relaxing. It was not like NYC at all. It was quite quiet overall and the people were very friendly, offering directions to us if we looked confused. I guess the business people are used to tourists and just offer help. Quite refreshing for such a big city.
Our next, tourist attraction, must see was the giant fountain. It was huge. Luke was confused as to why the pavement was all wet on the one side of the fountain. Um, the wind caused some of the spray to leave the fountain and end up on the pavement.
It never felt crowded while we were walking around and I enjoyed that most of all. I suppose that there are times of the day and places that get crowded but we really didn't encounter that. The most "crowding" we had was walking the Magnificent Mile and that was primarily at street crossings.
We were enjoying checking out all the nifty looking buildings and ended up at the Willis tower. Yeah, formerly known as the Sears tower and all the locals still refer to it as the Sears tower. Good luck with trying to get people to go with the name change Willis, it's not happening. We called it Sears too. All about that is up next.
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