Tourist!

As I mentioned earlier, my wonderful dad drove up with me (ok – really, he drove, I just sat around and said “I’m bored” a lot and played with the radio to an annoying degree.)

After spending some time with his brother, Daddy headed into the city for part of the day with me.

We took our respective trains in and met at State and Lake (otherwise known in my world as the Marshal Fields (now Macy’s, I know but that’s so lame) stop!!)

I was holding out for a yummy Chicago meal, but hunger got the best of us and we were pulled in by the delicious smells coming from Corner Bakery. It’s another Panera/Atlanta Bread Company concept but with more flexibility on their paninis.

Daddy hasn’t come to the city in a while and he wanted to see the Sears Tower (aka Willis Tower – again with the lame renaming!) so that is where we headed after lunch. Since his last visit a good 5 or so years ago, they have added these utterly retarded Plexiglas places where you can look straight down the 103 stories.

Do we really need to encourage people to jump from tall buildings, because this just seems like practice to me.

Needless to say, I had absolutely no desire to walk out on this ledge. My dad did though and he was even a bit shaken by it.

The views were beautiful, even on a slightly overcast day, and I would love to see it at night, but I don’t see myself spending the money to go back any time soon.

I then had a fab idea to take him to my favorite spot in the city. The place I would get married if I were to get married in Chicago (Vegas is still winning out – but that could change) which is the Cultural Center.

The Chicago Cultural Center is the old public library building. The walls and ceiling are mosaic tiles and they have inscriptions from great authors. The center room on the third floor also has a Tiffany dome which I am totally in love with. Especially when the sun hits it just right!

He wasn’t as impressed as I am with it, partially because it was a bit stuffy and we were hot from walking (a journey that shouldn’t have taken half as long as it did because I am apparently directionally impaired…)

That was the end of our adventure as he had to catch a train to the airport and I had a date with Macy’s – which was totally unproductive :(