Midsemester break to Chicago 2001

Mid-semester Break to Chicago - the windy city (Fall 2001)............................Pg 2

The drive took around 9 hrs, including the time we spent hollanded and trying to get our way back to the correct direction of the interstate. It was evening when we caught our first glimpse of Chicago's skyline!

Sears and Chicago skyline
Sears Tower and the skyline of Chicago city

Driving around in Chicago city was bad - Kim had the first taste of having to cut across 3 lanes to turn into the road leading to our hostel, driving the wrong direction in a one-way street, parking in a restricted area, reversing out onto a main road, driving up a pavement, and oops, I shalln't mention anymore =). Parking was exorbitant - USD12 per day for the weekends, and there was no jaga in the night too! We could drive out on the second night, return to our exact parking lot and no one else was the wiser.

We took the rail to our first night-time destination. Night spot? Nah.. Club? nope.. bar? forget it, we went to Improv Olympics, one of the improvisation performance places that Chicago is probably famous for. The first improv group wasn't that much laughable, but Ann-Marie and myself did satisfy ourselves with a glass of Magarita, which obviously has no link to the first clause of this statement. Dun understand what I'm talking? Go read up your I&A...

Camera-shake due to long exposure and second curtain flash setting
Your eye blur isit?

Their equivalent of the MRT ticket..
trips cost USD1.50 one way, no matter how far you go..

We stayed at the Internation Youth Hostel for the duration of our holiday. It was a nice place, newly renovated or vbuilt, with excellent amenities and right smack in the middle of downtown. We were also next-door to the Library of Congress, which is shown in the photo below:

Sears and the Library of Congress...

The next day

We awoke to a brand-new day on Saturday, 20 Oct 2001, and proceeded on our walkabout of Chicago. We stopped by a bagel shop for breakfast and makanned there. Nice bagels and muffins, but the peached-flavoured coffee sux...

at the bagel shop for breakfast
Bagels for breakfast!

PSA ppl discussing their future careers..
yours truly, Colin and Ann-Marie - a PSA scholars family shot..

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