My sister Shelby won a state competition (& a trip to nationals) for a high school club she is a member of. The national competition/convention was in Chicago. Mom, Lindsey, & I decided to go along and make it a girls’ vacation while we were at it. We left Saturday July 3rd and came back Thursday July 8th. We packed a lot of sight seeing (& heat) into the 4 full days we were there. I’m going to do a blog entry for each day so I don’t have to pack several stories and a lot of photos into one entry.
Day 1 – Saturday, July 3, 2010
We got into town late afternoon (after having a slight airplane delay). We checked into our hotel and decided to walk down to Millennium Park (which was only a couple of blocks from our hotel). We saw Pritzker Pavilion and the Bean (actually called Cloud Gate). Everyone had fun taking pictures of themselves in the Bean.
The one aggravation we had the entire trip revolved around paying for meals. There were a total of 9 people in our party. 1 person was not paying for all 9 meals. However, almost every restaurant we ventured into required us to submit one payment instead of the 6 splits we needed. It became a math session for some of us to sit and calculate how much everyone’s meal, tax, & tip amounted to and then to try to come up with the right amount of cash (because no one dared put the whole thing on a debit or credit card). Is it really so strange to want to pay for our own meals? I’ve never encountered this problem at home. (As a matter of fact, I went out to eat with my family last night. We had 13 people and most of us paid separately.)
Click here to see the photo album from my trip to Chicago.
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