Chicago: Land of Giants

I was not prepared for Chicago. its a world-class city filled with famous architecture here's me under Frank Gehry's monster amphitheater

and Jenn in front of the giant jelly bean

it was all i could do to keep her from trying to eat it
there was nothing to do in this town but take an architecture tour, here's our old guide, he was great, always flapping his arms with enthusiasm

chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper, and remains the skyscraper capital of the nation (except for new york, of course). heres an old building thats getting scrubbed clean of the decades of soot, most of it from the early 1900's when chicago was blackened by the soot of coal fired power plants

and inside one of the buildings is this famous mural made by the Tiffany company, it depicts the friar that settled this land before he died of influenza

after taking in all the grandeour, the only thing left to do was to eat a deep-dish chicago style pizza. we happened to be there during The Taste of Chicago festival, where all the restaurants set up a booth in the central park, so we had the whole town at our disposal. the verdict? give me Barro's pizza anyday!