Chicago - Day 1
Our adventures of Chicago began when we arrived at Midway at 12:30 this morning. Jamie’s sister was cool enough to drop us off at our hotel room even though she had to get up early for work today. Knowing that we had to wake up early in the morning to let in our 2 travelling companions, Pradeep and Deepak, I did not get to comfortably rest until they arrived. They soon arrived at 10am this morning and by that time, we decided we need to go out to get some cash to spend so we all went to look for a Bank Of America. Unfortunately, nobody in Chicago seems to know where a Bank of America is. It does not seem as popular as it is in the West Coast.
After getting our money at an arbitrary ATM machine (one of the many petpeeves I try to avoid), we decided to grab lunch at a recommended place called Star of Siam. The place was decorated nice with some parts of the restaurant resembling some carpet and pillow for guests to sit on in Indian style but was really sorta like a bench where you normally would sit without a back. Its like sitting on a little table but not. You just had to be there. I ordered the catfish and eggplant curry and my gf ordered the Pad Thai. Deepak and Pradeep who came with us agreed that it wasn’t as good as the other Thai places in Los Angeles. At least our bellies were full. Later Jamie tells us that we should have ordered their Thom Yum soup. She claims that it’s her favorite there!
We met up with Jamie and friends at PotBelly’s, a famous sandwich chain restaurant much like Quiznos but apparently better tasting. We will have to try that either tonight or tomorrow. We all spent the rest of the afternoon walking through Millenium and Grant Park. Got to see “The Bean”, which resembles a huge drop of mercury in the shape of an actual bean. You’ll know what I mean when I post the pictures of this trip. We had a chance to play in the water with the kiddies between two walls with rotating images of faces which at times began spewing water on bystanders near them. We even got to listen to some groovy Jazz music in the city’s Jazz Festival. Remember the fountain in Married with Children? We got to see that as well (Buckingham Fountain). Immaculant when you see it in person.
We ended up walking Jamie back to her brother’s place and walked back to our hotel room. I just woke up from a few hours of napping to write this post. We’re getting rested for our evening events and will soon have to get ready. It’s suppose to rain later tonight into tomorrow. Hopefully it is scattered showers. Otherwise we’ll have buy some umbrellas since we weren’t anticipating rain at any point of this trip. Pictures will be posted once we get back to LA.
