Day Three - Last Day in the Chi

Day Three was my last day in the beautiful Chi-city, which meant Yuri and I had to seize the day! And seize it we did.

We started out the day by waking up late and feeling hungry (of course). So, we walked to Giordano's for some Chicago style deep dish pizza and other Italian American eats.

The Slice: Green peppers, cheese, and sausage.

The pie.

Italian beef sandwich

Calamari

The food was SOOOOO delicious! I don't like thin crust pizzas, so I loved the breadiness of the pizza we ordered. The calamari was crispy and perfect, and the Italian beef sandwich was savory. The meat inside was so thinly sliced and the sauce really made it something special.

After lunch, we decided to take a bus tour around the city. Personally I thought the bus tour was a really good deal because it was only 20-something dollars to ride the buses and get on an off as much as you wanted. The buses stopped at all the main attractions in the city so it worked out really nicely. We also got a tour guide who was the funniest person I've met in my life. It was more like a stand-up routine than a bus tour!

Bus Fährt... hahaha!

We rode around on the bus for a while and decided to get off at Navy Pier because we wanted to see it before we left, and because our tour guide was switching out with another one. We're so loyal. Anyway, we strolled on the pier for a little bit and enjoyed some drinks and a snack.

People walking on the pier

Duck sleeping in the lake... I thought it was cute

So, after Navy Pier, we got back on the bus and took it to Sears Tower. After a lot of standing in line and feeling my soul being sucked out of me, we finally made it to the top of the tallest building in the world (which isn't really true anymore, but it's still freaking high!!!).

View from the 103rd floor of the tower

Another view

We were lucky to be visiting Chicago when we did because they had just added the ledges about a month ago. Basically some engineers (AKA badasses) thought it would be cool to have cantilevered glass ledges that visitors could stand on, so they built some and added them to the tower. We HAD to do it, there was no way we were going to leave without going on it!

Looking down from the ledge.. SCARY

Sitting on the ledge

Let it be known that the 103rd floor is really, really high. I mean REALLY high. Looking down from the glass ledge really put into perspective how high we were... and we actually started to feel physically ill. SO COOL!!!!

After we had enough of playing with death, we went down and looked around in the gift shops. I bought something for my brother and then we met Obama!

...Or rather, a cardboard cutout of President Barack Obama. Chicagoans are obsessed with Obama and hopelessly devoted to him.

After that, we had to get going in order to make it to St. Louis at a decent hour. On the way, we met some friends of Yuri's (the same ones from Day 1's tapas dinner) for Chinese/Korean food. Then we were on our way to STL, arriving around 2am. I'm pretty sad not to be in Chicago anymore, but as the Terminator says.... I'll be back.