The Windy City - Day 1
After a late night, we left for Chicago just before 5am Saturday morning. It took us just over 6.5 hours to get there. Kristy finally managed to have a sleep in the car (has been having difficulties doing so) and of course Ryan slept for nearly 2 hours of the trip!
The windy city wasn't really that windy.
First up we headed for Navy Pier - a touristy wharf with a Ferris Wheel, shops, restaurants and boat cruises. We strolled the wharf for a while, then jumped on the Ferris Wheel for a (really nice) birds-eye view of the city.
View from the Ferris Wheel
Kristy (on Ferris Wheel) with Chicago cityscape in the backgroundChicago is famous for its awesome architecture, so next up we went for a walk through town admiring the buildings (there are so many tall ones that they block the sun, so it does tend to get a little chilly). In particular we looked at the Wrigley Building, Trump Towers (still in construction), Tribune Tower (which had bits of rock and building material embedded in it from places all over the world such as the Egyptian Pyramids, temples in Cambodia and the Taj Mahal) and the Water Tower (apparently this was the only building downtown to survive a massive fire back in 1871).
We then caught the bus uptown to Lincoln Park (wonder if that's where the band got its name from??) and to the Lincoln Park Zoo - which was free to get in to!!!! Bargain! We spent the afternoon here and we have so many cute photos, but cant put them all on (obviously), so here are a couple of our favourites:
Ryno with the Rhino - apparently there are only between 2000-3000 rhino's left in the world
Kristy with the lions
This is our favourite - the giraffe poking his tongue out!
We got to wash the windows of the Hancock Building 
The view from the 94Th floor observation deck
By now we were starving, so we had some Italian for dinner, washed down with a litre of wine, and were passed out in bed by 830pm.
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