This is the 2nd blog post of what I tweeted while in Chicago with more details on what I did there.
SUNDAY 25th October 2009
Morning dedicated to walk along Michigan Lake and then Best Buy shop : is it worth buying a $299 Sony Reader Touch ? Tested Windows 7 too on a laptop.
Afternoon in an Ecuadorian-American family. American dinner with turkey and sweet potatoes. Carrot cake and pumpkin pie for dessert.
MONDAY 26th October 2009
Spent the day at the Science and Industry Museum in Hyde Park south Chicago. Visited the German U-boat U-505 which was caputured by American forces in 1944.
3 pictures taken at the Science and Industry Museum:
1 Stuka
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1 Supermarine Spitfire
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1 unidentified jet close to the Vought Crusader in shape (if someone recognize it, please let me know in the comments of this blog post)
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Monday evening: burger at Bar Louie
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next to Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs baseball team’s stadium.
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TUESDAY 27th October 2009
done today tuesday:
– eaten at the top of the John Hancock center
Picture of this skycraper and picture taken from its highest floor:
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– visited Adler planetarium and Shedd aquarium.
Skyline taken from the Adler planetarium
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– Dinner at Yang Yang chinese restaurant on Roosevelt street (south side of Chicago)
later in the evening I installed Android 1.6 donut over the air on my HTC Magic
WEDNESDAY 28th October 2009
early morning thought
What is good in the US is that I feel slim compared to the fat people I see in the streets. And I can find my size for clothes in the shops.
at noon, my parents and I made a cruise on the Chicago river to the the skycrapers’ architecture
Pictures of the cruise:
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Lunch at Chicago cultural centre with free wifi :-)
Saw the « bean »
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Chicago architecture’s Foundation walking tour with audioguides in the Loop.
Back at Chicago cultural center before shopping.
Ce jour là j’ai fait une folie au Niketown de Chicago : j’ai acheté un pantalon Tiger Woods à 150 $. Plus sage : 2 pantalons achetés à Gap sur le magnificent mile.
THURSDAY 29th October 2009
morning at Navy Pier
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Skyline from Navy Pier
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in Illinois the licence plates are customized with the baseline/motto/slogan « Land of Lincoln »:
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I saw one vanity plate too (on a pharmacist’s car).
Picnic lunch at Chicago cultural with free wi-fi.
visited the Art Institute with French impressionists.
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The most famous US paiting
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There is actually a statue of it on Michigan avenue.
At 7 pm started the NBA Basket ball match Chicago Bulls vs San Antonio Spurs at United Center. All the pictures taken there are on this Picasa album
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2 videos taken before the match:
Tony Parker called and his entrance on the « parquetry »:
envoyé par payre. – Foot, rugby, surf et encore plus de sports en vidéo.
Chicago Bulls’ famous music theme
envoyé par payre. – Foot, rugby, surf et encore plus de sports en vidéo.
victoire des Chicago Bulls sur les San Antonio Spurs malgre les 20+ pts de Tim Duncan impressionnant. Joakim Noah etait dans le 5 majeur mais Derrick Rose etait plus populaire à l’applaudimètre.
FRIDAY
réveil dans la nuit à 5h à Chicago, 11h en France.
visited the Chicago History museum between 11am and 3pm. audioguides where iPods! Interesting guided tour on Lincoln too.
Shopping in the afternoon: book at Borders, iPod Touch and iPod nano at Apple store
Album of pictures made at Chicago’s Apple store: MacBook Pro and the new iMac 27 inches
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Dinner in the evening at Galapagos café, an Japanese-Ecuadorian restaurant
SATURDAY 31st October 2009
last 3 pictures of Chicago; the skyline far on the horizon from the airport
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and the Airbus A340 we took from O’Hare to Madrid Barajas
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SUNDAY 1st November 2009
Landed safely in Lyon Satolas St Exupery at 11:30 am. I did not sleep since Saturday morning.
Guillaume Payre, webmaster à Grenoble 