Sunday, July 16, 2006

   So Much to Talk About....
I'm just going to say this because it made writing gobs about camp easier: I will try to put the least amount of info about my trip to Chicago as possible.
DAY ONE:
When we got there after the (:gasp:)over seven hour drive, we were so tired. We made the mistake of eating(or waiting) at the Lakeside Ramada Inn Restaurant. We waited 30 minutes for drinks, an hour for food, and mom didn't even get her pasta until we were done eating. Happy to get back to the room, we slept so well to get ready for the Sears Tower in the morning.
DAY TWO:
Chief, Grandma, Cantaloupe and I all had to squeeze into the back of a taxi(my second taxi ride ever...soo cool)while mom rode in front. After the gift shops(ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!) we FINALLY got to go up to the top of the tower. Well, it was...big.
Yeah. That's it.
In fact, it was sooo tall that what you couldn't see(which, really, you could see all of Chicago) was blocked by clouds. My favorite view was over Lake Michigan, which is the closest thing to an ocean I have ever been to.
At lunch we ate at this AMAZING!!!!!! pizza place, Giodanno's...I ordered the stuffed small cheese pizza; it was sooo good just thinking about it makes my mouth water!
We(as in Cantaloupe and I) swam at the pool until Grandma came around and said that Chief and her were going to the lake and we needed to come out soon if we wanted to go, too.
IT WAS AMAZING! As I said, its the closest thing to an ocean I have ever been to, and I have wanted to go to an ocean my WHOLE life.
I came back to the hotel soaked.
That night we went to the Navy Pier, and I was stupid enough to wear heels; I walked barefoot the last ten minutes we were there. We ate at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. from the movie Forrest Gump. SUCH great food and service...we had the awesomest waitress, Holly. I got one of their Run, Forrest, Run lscense plates and a bumper sticker that says "Supid is as stupid does"(you'd think I have a car!).
DAY THREE:
Ever since I was like, five I have been in love with Ancient Egypt. So has my Grandma, and one of the HUGE things about this trip was that we were going to go to the Field Museum to see the new King Tutankhamun exhibit. It was huge and wonderful and sparkly and indescribable, to know I was so close to something so important to history.
The museum rocked, we walked until our feet were about to fall off at four...so awesome. After that we just stayed at the Ramada and watched TV and ate Chinese.
DAY FOUR:
I saw what I have longed to see my whole life.
Dolphins.
They brought tears to my eyes. Such beautiful creatures, and I had finally seen them.
We went to the Shedd Aquarium. My three favorite things were the baluga whales, the manta rays, and, obviously, the dolphins.
DAY FIVE:
We(as in my mom and me, the others were at the Science and Industry Museum) slept in until twelve and then went shopping on the miraculous mile. I got a camo jacket from bloomingdales.
It was the day before grandma's birthday, so we went to a middle-eastern restaurant named The Nile. OH MY GOSH, the food was sooooooooo great! As an appetizer I has this dip for pitas made out of yougurt, zuchinni squash, mint, and something else I can't remember, and lentil soup. It was probably the BEST soup I have EVER tasted in my LIFE. I also had ground beef and lamb with rice and this awesome blend of vegetables. When we went back to the hotel we gave grandma her presents, which consisted of a paper flower, origami crane, and green earrings(Cantaloupe), a British TV series on DVD(Mom), and a completely homemade CD(me). When we got back to our room, we packed our things and got ready to leave in the morning.
DAY FIVE:
The Brookfield Zoo was the best I had ever been to in my life. It also had a dolphin show, but this time we were in front and got SOAKED!!!!!!! It also had the coolest ape house(in the Africa room it was raining!) and this amazing carousel with almost every animal you could think of on it!
Around three-thrity we got into the van and prepared for the road home. We ate at a diner and kept driving until around ten. We didn't make it home in time so we stayed at a hotel around Springfield.
We were all stinky from the zoo so we had to take quick showers before Phych came on. I fell asleep with my glasses on watching it.
DAY SIX:
The unplanned for day was just traveling, nothing more. I listened to my music the whole time, even though I fell asleep for the last couple of hours before we got back to Tiny Town.
I am soooo happy to be back with the memories of the most awesome, first real vacation we ever had. ^_^
(:dances a joyful dance for she is finnally done writing:)BYE, Y'ALL!!!
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