My Kind of Town...

We decided to meet in Chicago after Alison and the girls vacationed two weeks in New York. Although we only spent one full and two half days, we got a lot done and saw a bunch of interesting things.

We spent a good portion of Saturday with Alison's cousin Jay, his wife Becca and their 2 year old daughter Keelan at Navy Pier. From there, we went to see Blue Man Group. Alison and I had seen it in Boston years ago, but I thought it was just as good the second time around. The kids thought it hilarious. We ate dinner at Ditkas Steakhouse and called it a night.

Sunday morning we ate brunch atop the Hancock tower, traveled across town to walk the skydeck of the Sears building (now apparently called the Willis Tower), which included a "skywalk" with a glass floor. On the way back from Sears ...um... Willis, we saw them filming a scene for the upcoming Transformers 3.

Atop the Hancock

Skywalkers

On the Transformers set. PAs were running around telling the dozen or so amateur photographer, "no pictures." Um, last I know, you can't prevent me from taking a picture on a public sidewalk of a public street. Nice try.