Coates Closet: Chi-town wrap-up. part two.

it's starting to get fuzzy in my memory, and so much is happening in my life, so i need to finish about chicago and then i'll be able to post more about other things.

saturday- well, we didn't have much of a plan, other than fireworks at navy pier later in the evening, so we headed out walking.

we didn't really do anything for a while, then decided to hop on the water taxi for chinatown. sounds easy, right? not so much. there's only one water taxi company that goes to chinatown. and finding their "port" was quite confusing. the staircase that usually leads right to them was closed. so we walked around and around and around. three blocks later, we see people standing under a banner on the other side of the river with the correct water taxi banner above them. now we just had to figure out how they got down there. we asked around, were sent the wrong way by a local (who didn't know the original staircase was closed). eventually, though, we got on the right boat, and matthew snapped another nice picture (see above).

on the way, he pointed out this building- i almost didn't get the picture in time, but was thrilled to at least see the gorgeous architecture myself. and spent a moment dreaming of that other lifetime as a famous opera-singer-to-be.

after a long afternoon, and a short nap in between, we were excited to head out to navy pier once again for fireworks and the amusement park.

we were silly on the ferris wheel.

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matthew took this super cool picture from the base of the ferris wheel before we rode. it went really high, and we took some pictures of the skyline, but nothing was really that great of a shot. and i only give the best to my special bloggies.

we were most excited to find out that the imax at navy pier was showing batman, the dark night. but they were sold out for the night we were there. but they had tickets for sunday night! so we made plans to come back for the third day in a row.

side story- a brilliant bride had her reception in the big glass building at navy pier. it was full of greenery, had twinkly lights cascading down, the huge lit up ferris wheel outside in the background, and fireworks at 10pm! free fireworks- to end your reception! smart girl!

sunday- we really had no idea what to do with our sunday. sunday=early wake up, church, nap, etc. what could we do? we asked the concierge again about the place to get real chicago style pizza, and decided to do a late lunch. and thought we'd do some light shopping before. next door to our hotel was a mens suit place, so we bought matthew a new sportcoat. adult men need a good, versatile sport coat. his new one is blue. it's at our tailor now. look for it at a holiday party coming soon. we looked for purses and window shopped some more, but weren't really feelin' it, so we started heading toward giordano's pizza. and we are glad we did. it's quite an operation. we checked in. we were told: 1 hour 15 min wait. pre-order your pizza in half and hour at the counter over there. (imagine pointing)

okay, so we followed orders, and eventually had an amazing lunch with plenty of leftovers. we even took a piece or two back to the concierge! more sightseeing, walking, etc. we went up to the top of the john hancock building and got these beauties: