Chicago-Day 2

Friday, June 12th turned out to be a very nice day. The sun was shining! So we decided to do the double decker bus tour of the city. We found out pretty quickly that sitting on the top while the bus was moving was very CHILLY, although I still managed to get a little bit sunburned.

The tour started out by going past Soldier Field, and a couple of the museums. We got a really good view of the Chicago Skyline.

This tour goes on all day, so we were able to get on and off the bus wherever we wanted to. The first place we got off was Navy Pier.

There was lots of "tourist" shopping places here, so our first goal was to find sweatshirts because we were freezing cold from being on top of the bus! And I also bought a few little things for the kids. We had lunch here and also rode on the big ferris wheel. The view was amazing.

We got back on the bus to go around the downtown area where we saw some really neat bulidings and landmarks like the Sears Tower. Our next stop was Millenium Park. The big attraction here is the silver "Bean". We took a picture of our reflection.

We finished up the bus tour and headed back to our hotel to get ready for our fun night out at the bars!

Margo is getting all pumped up for the evening in the above pic :)

We started out at the Hard Rock Cafe where there was a "pre-party" for Kenny so there were a couple country bands playing. We had dinner and drinks and listened to music. It was a fun start to the night. We then headed out to a bar called the Hunt Club and ended the night at an Irish Pub. Both were a fun time. It ended up being a late night...and I will leave it at that! :)