Sorry it's been such a while since I've posted, but here we go.
The weekend was great; we drove five hours to Sarah's sister Kelly's place in Chicago (you know, Blues Brothers, Al Capone, that place), a lovely drive except for the traffic once we got into the city, making the last ten kilometres take an hour.
For a free zoo, the zoo in Chicago is excellent. Yes, it costs $12 to park there, but since it was close to where we were, we just walked. Monkeys, penguins, camels, polar bears, aardvarks... I could watch monkeys for hours. Penguins, too. Gorillas sitting staring at the crowds, chimpanzees stealing straw from each other, lemurs holding baby lemurs, penguins swimming in circles... OK, we did watch the monkeys for hours... Theres even a new photo album up with Zoo pictures.
Saturday was supposed to be Fourth of July Fireworks (yes, I know it was the 3rd), so Kelly hosts a party in her apartment which has views of the lake and the place they were going to set off the fireworks from...
There was a thunderstorm or three and it rained rather heavily most of the day.
Well, the party was still fun, and at least we were dry, as opposed to all the people camped out by the lake to watch non-existant fireworks.
Sunday, more walking around the city. I think I wore about a centimetre thick layer of skin from the soles of my feet this weekend. We saw the Sears Tower, supposedly the tallest building in the world ... but thats a bit of a porky: there are two buildings in Kuala Lumpur that are taller, and have been there since the mid nineties. But its still the tallest building in America. We didnt go up, since it cost $10 each, it was a cloudy day, and its only 400 metres tall anyway: I fly much higher than that...
I did see some five-star public toilets, with a huge queue of people waiting (hope none were in a hurry) and little oompa loompas waiting to clean each one after each use...
Plenty of photos up in Scenery and Culture, and of course the new Zoo album too.
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