Montag, 15. Oktober 2007

Chicago!

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Weekend trip to Chicago



Last weekend (13/14. 10.) I joined Valeska, Emily and Hannah (all of them harp students) on their spontaneous trip to Chicago. (finally a chance to see more of America than just Bloomington!!!)

The tour started with me sleeping in and waking up by Valeska knocking at my window for at least 5 minutes. (thank God, that my room in the basement) I woke up quite shocked because the 2 other girls were already waiting outside in the car. Even though I managed somehow to sit in the car within some minutes, I kept feeling confused and dizzy the whole day.

After driving through the completely flat fields of Indiana for over 3 hours, we entered Illinois (yeah, another state, and another time zone!) and arrived in Chicago after a 4 hours drive and exactly 233miles/374 kilometres.
We went for lunch in a very American Italien restaurant, then we visited Navy Pier,a kind of Vergnügungspark on a huge pier with view out of Lake Michigan. Then we walked around a bit between the skyscrapers and visited the art museum:


I was suprised, how many famous paintings were hanging around there! Picassos, Monets, Manets, Renoirs, van Goghs,...
Here is a self portrait beween some older sky scrapers (yes, some of them really looked like from the turn of the century - very nice):


In the evening we visited a harp concert of course, with a great wine and cheese reception aferwards. The whole "harp-high society" has seemed to meet there and the 3 girls were very excited, whereas I enjoyed trying all those delicious cheeses, fruits and sweets from the buffet instead.
Then we drove to Emily's aunt's place in a suburb of Chicago where we could spend the night.

Of course I filmed also this time, I will add an excerpt here as soon as posisble- like the last time. So till soon! :)

4 Kommentare:

Magdarine hat gesagt…

looks like you're really having a lot of fun!!! :)

Elisabeth hat gesagt…

hallo, ich find deinen blog echt cool. aber muss das mit dem englisch wirklich sein.
dein eigentlich Sympathisant

Magdarine hat gesagt…

Zeit für ein Update würd ich sagen. Und: Englisch schadet nie.

Elisabeth hat gesagt…

schadet doch!