Trips for Millennium Park

Its late, I have been getting little sleep, working lousy shifts and by god I need a vacation... and its Angela's birthday, I have an excuse! Chicago here I come! Left Lexington at five-ish heading to Cincinnati in Angela's electric golf cart …

Drop off Sammy with the in-laws. He's going to eat well. We should weigh him first to see the difference Landed in Chicago. No problem. Made it to the rental agency -- guess what? No vans in the lot. Waited around the lobby for about half an …

Arrival We arrived in Chicago at at 1:45pm- earlier than scheduled. We then met up with Stephanie's friend Mina who attends the School of the Art Institude of Chicago, who we were staying with in Chicago. She lives right off the red line at …

Pro Football Hall of Fame We started out early and headed toward Canton, Ohio. It took us a little over 5 hours and we left around 6am. I promised we would not be getting up that early for the rest of the vacation and we didn't. The Hall of …

Leaving Asia The trip began with more complication than planned. I was supposed to fly from Jakarta and meet Mina in Singapore, then take a straight flight together to Los Angeles, and finally take a connecting flight to Chicago. We were supposed …

We work until 11;45 and leave at noon. 320 miles to St. Louis and with a stop to buy an I-pod touch at Sams we're on our way. Road construction makes it a 5 hour and 20 minute trip but we arrive at Busch Stadium without one wrong turn, this …

When we arrived in Chicago it was pretty late, we got our car and headed for our Hotel in the Hoffman Estates area, which was supposed to be about a 25 minute drive. 45 minutes later we see a "Welcome to Wisconsin" sign, needless to say I was …

Chicago really made it convenient for the travellers! From the airport without needing to walk outside at all, we reached the CTA train station and bought our Visitor's pass. We got 2-days pass for $9, and 1-day pass for $5. Then we followed …

Train ride to Chicago from Carbondale went great. Highly reccomend for anyone on a budget only $35 a person you can't buy the gas for that price and there is no traffic to deal with. Got lost a little on our way to the hotel only a few blocks …

We flew into Midway on Thursday morning and took the free hotel shuttle to our hotel, got an early check in and got cleaned up before we headed downtown for the day. We stayed at the Four Points Sheraton near Chicago Midway right on Cicero …