Chicago

Wow, the bus ride to Chicago from Toronto was epic to say the least! We left toronto at 630pmand arrived in chicAgo aT 5am the next day!! Tmake the ride even more fun, there was a stop at 10pm where luckily half the bus evacuated, a stop at 1130pm for the all time favourite border crossing, one at 130am in the quite scary town of Detroit, a feeding ago at 3am (where at least 80% of the bus bought burgers and giant sodas) ! Needless to say we were glad to arrive in Chicago where we zombied our way along the street to the hostel!

A it was 6am we weren't able to check in yet but somehow managed to convince the guy at the front desk to let us have a shower!! Feeling slightly more human after a 30mibute shower we filled up on coffee and then hit the streets to explore and shop!! We navigated our ways through the streets and managed to find what we were looking for, victoria secrets and the Nike store! We had much success shopping and were so glad to be able to check into our hostel room where we crashed and woke up ready for another day! 

We joined the city walking tour from the hostel and walked throu soe of the city sites. W saw a lot of museums, some pretry cool pedestristan bridges and fountains and got some inside on the giant sky scrapers that lines chigaos city scape. Some of the buildings were so beautiful and very old and mix with the more modern buildings from today the sky line was very impressive!

After the tour we headed up to the navy pier which we had been told was a major tourist attraction in the city. The walk from the hostel was very long but our new shoes made it slightly more bareable! The pier  pretty cool. There were lots f restaurants and bars, a children's museum, lots of touristy boat tours, a stain glass window exhibit and a theatre! There was even a few theme park rides! We wandered around for a while, had a Very strong margarita in celebration of teddy a birthday and then quickly ran home in an attempt to avoid the threatening storm that seemed to be following us! 

That night we went to the buddy guy jazz bar and listened to some acoustic jazz before exploring the city by night and checking out the lights on the fountains we had visited during the day.

The next day held for us a lot for sunshine and luckily so as we were headed to watch our very first NHL game! We had gone for a run that morning and noticed people walking to the game at like 8am! Kick off wasn't until 12 midday. There was also a carpark full of RV's who had camped ut for the game and were all starting their day with a pre game BBQ! Definitely some dedicated fans.

We walked to the game with the other 100,000 or so fans heading there. It was crazy! I left home without my hat so of course had to buy one when we got there! What a better way to support my new team.. 

 The game itself was a different experience, we didn't really understand what was going on all the time but it was great to be there and be part of the atmosphere with so many very dedicated fans all donned in their teams colours. Ad the stadium was packed too, not like the suncorp games we were used to where the stadium is never full! 

We spent our last afternoon in Chicago watching the sun set with a cocktail in our hand from the top of the John Hancock centre, one of the tallest buildings in the city. It  was then back home to pack and prepare ourselves for our next stop - New York City baby!!