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We are in Chicago, but I almost didn’t make it. Mr C took me to the Urgent Care clinic last night because I still had a fever and I couldn’t eat because of a horrible sore throat. As Steoh says, if Mom can’t eat, it is serious!!
I didn’t have a virus after all, I have a nasty strep infection. So after a mega-dose of antibiotics and some sleep last night, I was up and off to Chicago this morning. The Dr didn’t think I should take the trip, but Mr C said he would not go if I couldn’t go. So here we are. I am not 100%, but a bit better. We are staying near Millennium Park and had hoped to have time to spend the afternoon at The Art Institute, but that did not happen. We did have a great time walking around Millennium Park until I got whoozy. We came back to the hotel. I took a nap. We just had a delightful dinner at Catch 35, a seafood restaurant.
Here are some photos from the trip, so far. All are clickable.
From the plane:
Mt. Adams:
Dual mountains:
Loved these circles created by irrigation:
Snow:
The Chicago skyline comes into view:
Millenium Park’s Cloud Gate. I just loved this!! Designed by Anish Kapoor.
Here is our reflection in Cloud Gate.
This is taken in the interiour, looking up – so cool.
The other really cool piece is the Crown Fountain:
Tomorrow, we head to Ft. Wayne for the festivities of Steve’s 50th High School Reunion – class of ’58, Concordia High School. We brought a case of Oregon wine with us for a party tomorrow night. You cannot ship wine to Indiana, so the Erath Winery gave us a special box with plastic inserts and amazingly, it arrived safe and sound.
Hope you get feeling better Gerri, it’s no fun to be sick while traveling — fend off those old girlfriends! Glad you enjoyed the Magic Bean!
Great photos – but now you have made me worried about my own sore throat which is getting steadily worse…. but so far I am still able to cope with my medicinal ice cream so you must be way worse than me. All my sypmathies to you.
Oh Gerrie, this sounds absolutely horrible. At least with a staph infection they can do something about it!
I really appreciate your link to the site on Palin…how scary is she! I have never been so afraid in all my life….
Ilve been watching CNN while we are here in San Antonio and I swear, they keep trying to get the record straight on the stories about her but to the point that they appear to be favoring her. Correcting everyone they interview …etc..ugh…
What a really bad time to get sick! Hope you get to feeling better quickly. Love that picture with the circles….it is fascinating.
When we lived in Indiana in the 70s it was illegal to carry your own drink from the bar to your table in a restaurant. The waitress had to carry it for you. I’m sure that makes some kind of sense but we were never sure just what it was.
hey, it blue linked it automatically!
I don’t know if you have read this article as published in the SF Chronicle…or part of it was…interesting reading about Ms Palin. I am so against her; I too turn the tv off. http://www.sfgate.com/ZETQ
If I were a better computer whiz I’d know how to “blue” link it!
Catch 35 is a great seafood restaurant – I’ve eaten there a couple of times. I love my city it’s clean with so much to see and do. Hope you feel better.
I am so glad you were able to make the trip. I kept checking your blog yesterday to see if you had actually gotten to fly out after all. As always, your pictures are fabulous…love the gate and especially the fountain.
Take care and don’t party too much!
xo
Gerrie – this has not been your year, has it? Yikes! Please take care of yourself…and enjoy Chicago’s wonderful art and architecture for me.
Feel 100% soon!
Hi Gerrie
I hope the antibiotics succeed in banishing the strep forthwith. Thank you for your photos. The ones of the mountains bring back memories of my year in Washington State as an exchange student and similar crop circles were inspiration for my quilt – Crop Circles.
Yow! Hope you feel better soon!