Day One Proper

Got up at , for me, a reasonably early hour. Had some breakfast in the hotel cafe and then set off to do the first of some sightseeing. The last time I was in Chicago it was November and there was a not a lot going on. Luckily this time it was still the "high season" so there was plenty of opportunites to get and do some sight seeing. The day started with a temperature of the high 60s and by the time I hit the Navy Pier at about eleven it must have been at least 70 degrees F.

Additions to the Pier included by various artists consisting of everything from what appeared to be a giant wooden piggy bank on wheels to various human figures such as a sleeping man on a bench to a carprpenter surveying his work on the pier itself.

The afternoon consisted of windows shopping at Marshall Fields near the old Water Tower, one of the few buildings that survived the Great Fire in 1871. It is surrounded by the usual skycrapers and almost seems a little lost surrounded by all this modern architecture.