On the way back to Grant Park we walked through Millenium Park to check out the Bean.
The Bean. It's so shiny.
I don't really get this whole Bean thing. Why a Bean? I read the wikipedia article and there's no mention of the reason for the design. Maybe I should stop using wikipedia as my sole source for information. I'd be a horrible college student given the current availability of wiki articles.
Lollapalooza actually consists of something like 7 different stages for bands to play on. Two main stages and several smaller side stages for up and coming artists. The Playstation one was host to a number of good bands like Cage the Elephant the Deftones.
The main headliner for Saturday night was good ole Eminem. Oh and btw the other headliner on Friday night was Coldplay. I kept yelling "where's Chris Martin" and "When does Coldplay" start at the Muse concert and people kept giving me dirty looks. I think it was funny for the first 2 minutes. Too bad I did it for about 8.
The Recovery album being hyped. We didn't bother getting close to the stage.
I don't get the E being backwards. is Eminem going the Toys R' Us route?
This just reminds me of the scene from Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom.
Shot of Eminem from the big screen. He's starting to look like Elijah Wood. Well, after rocking out to the King of white rappers it was time for dinner.
Fish and chips for the SO's sister.
I wanted some sausages in my mouth. Oh yeah. Juicy sausages in my mouth.
What time is it?
Guinness time!
I don't even remember what the SO got. I think there's a picture of it somewhere but I forgot to download it and I'm too lazy to go and re-download it so you get a picture of dessert.
Some weird fig concoction.
Full of food and tired from the day we crashed and got ourselves rested for Day 3.
Once again, the early day lineup of Lollapalooza was just mediocre so it was sightseeing time.
I read online about the Chicago architecture tour so we headed off on a 90 minute tour. This might get boring for those of you not into buildings.
The Trump Tower. Even the tour guide was surprised it turned out pretty decent. She was telling us how people wanted to dislike it because of who it was associated with but couldn't.
More buildings.
A-Ha. A bridge. Just to spice up the tour.
This place would look perfect in Amsterdam too. Bet it looks funnier when you're high as a kite. You know, like when you're really high up in the air.
The late 90s and 2000s saw a huge real estate boom in Chicago and a lot of old warehouses were converted into condos.
You can immediately tell which buildings were conversions because they always tack on a balcony. Some of the balconies don't look very safe but whatever, at least they look nice.
The Sears/Willis Tower in the background. Looks like Batman.
Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh Sears Tower!!!
Marina city. Looks like a giant corn on the cob.
The Chicago skyline from afar. Definitely a beautiful site and a MUCH better downtown than LA.
Yeah. I think some cities in the midwest have better downtowns than LA. We can boast that we have like 5 freeways all intersecting at downtown. The 60, 10, 110, 101, 5. Oh wait that's a horrible idea.
Anyways, that was the Chicago weekend. In about two weeks I'm back in LA and then two weeks after that it's the wedding of the century for me. Mine. Wedding of the century because I'm hoping to only have one. *Crosses fingers*.
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