Day 44

We're up at 730. Jeff & Nate have school. We're out the door by 830 or so.

Find our way to the train station. Hop on the old Amtrak & downtown Chicago here we be. Can I just say that the entire downtown resembles New York's wall street: clean & orderly. Attractive people walking about. Even the old guys saunter.

We don't let our utter incompetence slow us down..on to Berghoffs. A German stube that has been around since the late 19th century. We walk in & find it to be more of a mafia den. I never knew these two cultures mixed. We were both creeped out, plus they wanted $19 an entree.
We'll starve thank you.

Millennium park was expensively modern. You can tell this is Obama's stomping ground. Everything is brand new: We stand around taking pictures of ourselves until the blatant narcissism makes me nauseous.

Checked out Navy Pier. If you've been to Santa Monica you've been here. We have a drink for lunch then hoof it to Chipotle.ahhh. Money can't buy you happiness. But, $7 at Chipotle gets you darn close.

All major objectives now completed we head back up to Lake Bluff. Nate & Jeff have their noses buried in thier textbooks so Shane & I attempt to go to the local Xfitness to work out/hot-tub. They wanted $20 a person. What the H!

Backup plan is to loiter in Barnes & Nobles. I peruse rock climbing & motocross magazines while Shane cheered somebody that apparently needed cheering. All the while a group of tween-ager awkwardly linger. We get creeped out & move..they follow. Pretending to look at books, while glancing over every 3 seconds.

Nate, Jeff, Shane & I watch Layer Cake over a Bertoli's pasta and fruit punch.