My trip to the windy city of Chicago
'19.06.2017'
I have not yet been to New York, and now it seems to me the same as Chicago. Who were - similar?
✔ Needless to say that the “City of Winds” with a population of 2.7 million and millions of tourists a year is very different from our “village” of 15 thousand and from our non-tourist Detroit (670 thousand)?
✔ In 5 minutes in Chicago, I saw more people than in a year living in Michigan!
✔ There are many, many people - and they are different! You walk in a crowd of tourists and hear any languages other than English. And if you suddenly hear English, then with different accents!
✔ There are street musicians with drums and flutes, and "bronze statues that come to life", and preachers who talk about the Day of Judgment and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like in the movies!
✔ Many different freaks and beggars. Cranks talk to themselves, walk the streets, dancing and waving their arms; and the beggars poke plastic cups almost in the face and call you in the hope of getting the cherished money!
✔ City Center (downtown) is large, but if you go a little further from the sights, you can calmly sit in a roadside cafe (and “burn out” in the sun, following the example of my husband!), looking around and trying to shout down the rumbling train.
✔ Excellent public transport: buses, subways, ubiquitous yellow taxis.
✔ Parking in the center we had $ 45 per night - it's just awesome not cheap! (we saw another for $ 55 and $ 60). Who knows where to find cheaper?
✔ The architecture of historic high-rises reminded me of Detroit - obviously, they were built at the same time.
✔ And, finally, what made my mouth open in surprise: we walk-walk along the street, houses-shops-roads, people, cars drive-beep, and suddenly I see - and we are walking along the second level of the city - and there is another one, with houses-roads-people-cars.
✔ In general, as a guest in Chicago, I really liked it. Great for changing things! And for the life of my dear suburb.
From our home to Chicago - about 5 hours by car. And the last hour, as usual, is the longest!
And Chicago met us well. It's raining! At the same time, the rain began exactly when we left the hotel for a walk.
Well, we're Michigan, accustomed to the rain - we got an umbrella!
Chicago realized that something had to be done with these stubborn people - and the downpour began! Not that "cats and dogs" poured from the sky; there whole “cows with elephants” began to fall!
With wet feet, we went into a restaurant to warm up and eat. While we were having lunch, the weather outside the window “was not joking like a child”. Having called Chicago "the rainy city“, And making sure that apart from the showers, nothing else" shone "to us that day, we hurried back to the hotel (as a keepsake of this day, I still have light socks, forever painted with sneakers in pink).
The next day, the weather cleared up and warmed up - and that's when we "broke away"!
What did you do in just one day?
In the morning we went to the Willis Tower, where a panoramic view of the city opens from the 103 floor. The elevator rises (and falls) there so fast (the path takes 1 a minute!) That everyone in the cabin lays a couple of times. It is interesting to observe how 20 people stand (all as one) with their mouths open.
We bought souvenirs, walked around the center, reached Millennium Park (where the mirrored "Fasolina" and endless crowds of people taking pictures with it), walked along the embankment, sat in cafes, went shopping, housed the noisy train and waved at the beautiful architecture ...
They did not go to museums, but my husband did not want to go to the steamer. Nevertheless, we performed the maximum program for ourselves: we took pictures, admired ourselves, and by nightfall we returned to our room with our feet droning with fatigue.
The next morning we rushed home - my husband again had to prepare for a business trip (yeah, again without me!).
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