Wot a WEEEEEEEEEEEk!!
The last week was pretty hectic......with lotsa work ....majorly repititions of my previous experiements coz of my absence of mind.....damn! i was like in a never ending loop of making silly (read bizzare) mistakes which really got on my nerves.....I hope im not jinxed...Im still waiting for my guide, Greg. Hopefully he should b here by Thurs 20th.
Saturday was work plus shopping at JEWEL. O ya! we also ate at this THAI restaurant. Man it jus drilled a hole down my pocket and wasnt tht gr8 either! Was a lil happy wen I had a look at Anish's plate....weird stff all over...n something which he said looked like "snake babies"!!:P
Wen I spoke to my folks back home they seemed to b pretty enthu abt wot was goin on with me. "Kaise ho?", "Kaisa lag raha hai","Khana theek se kha rahe ho naa?", "AAche se ghoomna","Eat a lot of fruits, they'r cheap thr"...n so on.....really miss evryone at home...!!
SUNDAY WAS CHILLAXOFREAKOUT day @ Chicago......i was simply spell bound byy what Chicago had to offer!!!!
Really tall (well thts an understatement) skyscrapers...man it was some skyline at downtown Chicago....
the first place we hit was JOHN HANCOCK OBSERVATORY-1,000 feet above the Magnificent Mile, Michigan Av, the heart or rather the most bustling n colorful part of Chicago.This was a 96 storey (!!!!!) building with an observatory at the 94th floor. It is the city's only open-air skywalk. Here you'll see a 360-degree incredible view of Chicago, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and other parts of Illinois.The ticket to the observatory cost $12 which really put us down( especially after blowing up $10 each at the crappy Thai pl. we werent in a mood for letting thoz bucks out so easily) .....but then this was a one-time-in-the-life opportunity.We worked a way out :) We took the elevatorin the lobby and went straight up to the 95th floor at the restaurant-cum-bar. Luck favors the brave goes the adage but didnt quite work for us :( The incharge linda shooed us outta thr.Well, thr u r! whr thr is a will thr is a way goes anothr adage. We took to the elevator to the last floor. It was the Lounge of the same restaurant. Things seemed to work peacefully...we waLKED AROUND smitten by the sight below thru the glass walls.....WOW! I had never seen something la tht before...its inexplicable....the Lake Michigan on one side and the Chicago Skyline on the other. The cars on the road seemed like of of those baby toys..the buildings so minuscule that I could squash them down with my feet...No sight of living things (Now i know y they are called lesser mortals)...
Next we jhandoed in pure desi ishtyle..tadoing bandiyan(n real sexy ones:P), feelin the chilly air, rockin wit the music at the virgin store, Feelin a kick at the Nike showroom and Smellin' the fragrance at Boss's. This was the MAGNIFICIENT MILE- a mile long area along the N. Michigan Av...the place ud find any brand label on earth...the shoppin pl. for the world.
Walkin n window shoppin we reached NAVY PIER- originally built in 1916 to serve Lake Michigan freighters and provide transportation to other cities on the Great Lakes, as well as for recreational purposes. In 1941, Navy Pier was converted to military use and used throughout World War II. From 1946 to 1964, it was a college campus. After a lull in the 1970’s and 1980’s, Navy Pier was revitalized and, today, it is a multi-million dollar convention, cultural and recreation center and Chicago’s most visited attraction with food chains, food shacks, Ferris wheel, A nice cute garden,cruises, power boats, lil' ducks in the water and birds flying ovr the shore,a 3D time escpae (dont believe we spent $10 for tht bird-shit) ride whr u were supposed to sit in front of a screen in a dark room with ur 3D glasses on whilst some crap plays on (one distinct thing i remember abt this was the black female among the crew who seemed 2 b luving her job like nobody's business!! Dancing, jumpin', shouting, she was the only good thing abt this Time escape ride).The best site at Navy Pier was the museum of glass paintings...outta the world..never seen so much finesse in glass paintings....
Chillin out (literally, the weather was damn cold and Anish was without his jacket) we hopped over to Millennium Park-undoubtedly the best thing of the day."Millennium Park," says one prominent civic leader, "will be a worthy creation for all time. It will define Chicago to the entire world as America’s greatest city. Located in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe Streets, the 24.5-acre park is an unprecedented center for world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design, where you can experience everything from interactive public art and ice skating to al fresco dining and free classical music presentations by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus.The best feature here was the Crown Fountain- two 50-foot high glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers activated with changing video images and lights, and water cascades from the top of each were simply awe-inspiring. This fountain showed the Faces of people on a 50-foot screen with water falling from the top. Wow! I was feelin so good here. Just wen I thot we shud move ahead water fountain emerged from the Mouth of the faces. I luckily managed to capture that on my digi-cam...kewl!
Having done with this, we moved on to catch some museums but all of them seemed to b closed. The road led us to the Buckingham fountain and then to the lake shore whr we relaxed r cryin feet. The sight of the skyscrapers from here was breathtaking!! After some pumping from my side anish finally had some tempo to head towards the Shedd Aquarium but it turned out to b their closing time when we reached thr at 6 in the evening. Tired and half-dead after those miles of walkin arnd in Chicago we head for home by catching the CTA TRAIN FROM THE ROOSEVELT SUBWAY.
The icing on the cake was provided by the toppings on the pizza (which we munched after reachin home) ......I kept thinking "MAN WILL I EVER 4get this day" ...ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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