Day 9

Chicago!! Wow! I had forgotten how much I love this city!! We had a very early start and had an incredible day.

Here we are taking a water taxi. Great way to get around in Chicago.

The Hershey Store!! We shopped along Michigan Avenue and after going into Tiffany's and Cartier's we went to the Hershey store. (We could actually buy something in this store) Christian Parks made candy, we bought candy, we had samples of candy....made us forget about the diamonds...Chocolate really is the answer.

Just a view of the city.

We took the kids to the Chicago Art Institute. We were able to see Picasso, Monet, and several other great artist. My reason to go to this museum is the Thorne rooms. I couldn't wait to show the kids exact replicas of period rooms completely to scale. (My degree is in interior design and these period rooms are painstaking reproduction of European and Early American rooms.)

Here we are in a skybox at the Sears (Willis) Tower. We are 103 floors above the earth. They literally built a glass box for you to step into. It is extremely freaky, very strange feeling. Some of us ( me and little cb) weren't really excited about it. But, we got the picture.