Bence in the States: 02.11 - 02.17

This week was all about the Chicago trip.

Length: 2000 miles - 3200 km

Duration: 74 hours

We left Hamden at 6PM and headed to Cleveland. Around 2:40AM we reached our hotel and on Saturday we continued driving up to Chicago. We arrived there at 4PM. Let us see what we visited.

Christmas Story House in Cleveland

(Photo courtesy of Krisztina Salekovics)

http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/

It was closed but we took a photo of the famous leg lamp

(Photo courtesy of Krisztina Salekovics)

This is Chicago at the Wrigley Stadium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Field

This is our team: Marti, Kriszti, Andris, Bence

We asked a guy to take a photo at the stadium and of course he had no sense how to organize a good photo. Our feet and the top of the wrigley sign are cut off...

I think this is brilliant. Those seats are not part of the stadium, but somebody realized that from there you can watch the game, so somebody built a grandstand and charges people to watch the game.

I do not know who he was, but i had to climb up and do this:)

Next to the stadium we ate at the Goose Island Bar & Restaurant. We paid 15 bucks to try five different beers. It was pretty cheap and handcrafted good quality beer.

With the food

My meal

OK, so we went to the Navy Pier that is the entertainment park in Chicago. So much fun at the same place.

From outside the Navy Pier

Visitor Map of the Navy Pier. You can see how many things are going on there.

Chicago!!!!

This tiny black baby girl went to Marti and she immediately picked her up as she was her daughter.

Nice!

The largest McDonald's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_N_Roll_McDonald's

The view of the city

Chicago Stock Exchange

Willis Tower, known as the Sears tower

Like in the Batman

262x Michael Jordan

50 miles radius that you can see from the top. Unbelievable!

http://www.willistower.com/building-information/history-and-facts/

Everything seemed to be small from the top

We occupied this glass cubicle for the most time. After us a lady came and supervised how much time every person spent there:) Sorry guys! We got what we paid for:):) Maximized our utility:)

Sitting outside

Standing outside

Kriszti and Marti are standing outside

At the Route 66 starting point, we will do this trip from here. You will know about it, dont worry:) It is coming...

World famous Chicago style pizza

With the stuffed pizza. It was pretty awesome!

Subway doesn't go underground, it goes above streets. I like this structure. It has many advantages on the maintenance side. If it is snowing roads are not covered in the city center.

Check this out if you are also interested in the Chicago Loop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Loop

On the architectural point of view Chicago is beautiful.

At Lake Michigan, the water is crystal clear, wild ducks enjoyed it a lot.

Chicago downtown, pretty cool!

I had to climb up. Abraham Lincoln

I thought that everybody stood like me, now looking at the photo i feel stupid:) Anyway, our team is at Lake Michigan

Chicago is the trader's heaven

Chicago Broad of Trade

This is Detroit downtown from the Canadian side

(Just among us, i think this a freaking great photo)

Looking at Detroit from Canada after crossing the border without problem.

This is another great photo taken by somebody in the team. The point would have been to show that I am standing at the headquarter of RIM (Research in Motion, manufacturer of Blackberry) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

http://www.waterloo.ca/en/gettingactive/rimpark.asp

I did not like this headquarter or the whole park. I will not regret if they go bankrupt. I have already sold my blackberry. I wish the best for you guys.

This is just water evaporation I bet. There are many factories along the Big Lakes.

On Monday we visited the Niagar Falls again for two reasons. Reason one was to show Marti, because she never saw it before, reason two was us (Andris and I) to be there for the third time.