around chicago

the second day of chicago trip, we went to the millennium
park and visited the art institute of Chicago.

the institute was having a "free february" deal, so we got to see some
awesome photographs and art for free,
but it was so packed that we left earlier than we hoped.

that same day we also went to the navy pier and went home for mcdonalds.
that night, diana and i watched adam and thought it was very interesting...

fun fact: diana's friend who we were able to stay with bought us a
pretty big bucket of ice-cream. we ate it all as we finished the movie. 

stuffed!

i am finally not procrastinating anymore today on my homework,
got so much done! (but still got a lot, eesh...)
anyways, here are my chicago posts for the family!^^

this was the first day of our trip..
we (window) shopped around downtown,
and ate our lunch at this famous pizza place...

like most of the famous places, we had to wait. for a while.
so i took some pictures to kill some time.
fun fact:  i think my photo style changed a little  after my internship training. :)

here is my friend alberta from hk that i was able to meet up in chicago
(actually she used to live couple floors below me, and we went to the same high
school and went to same class for two years)

45 minute later. Ta-da!

 Here is our a spinach stuffed pizza.
And we only ordered the spinach stuffed pizza.
It was so great, and it costs us only $7 each. Pretty amazing.

Chicago 2010

you are the first ones who see this sets of chicago photos!


it was another windy day in chicago when we took this picture...

i wore two jackets, but it was still pretty windy to walk around...
we spent saturday morning until monday evening in chicago...
we thought we did most of everything in chicago (during winter)

every new friend we met told us we should have visited chicago
in the summer, because there are much more things to do...

such as, going to parks (lay on the grass and look at clouds or stars)
going to the lake shore beaches (and play with the sunshine)
walk around downtown...(and have a pizza or hot dog)

they said it's not too hot in summer...it's almost perfect there..

but, diana and i were there for our spring break in march...
everything was still snowy!
(while in st. joseph, a place where winter is usually longer than
everywhere else, was surprisingly warmer than chicago!)

anyhow, we did as much as we can sight-seeing wise...
and had a gooooood time in the wind city.

Chicago 05'

(it was in construction or something)

(outside the space museum)

all the exchange student children (with two host sisters) hopped on a bus and went to chicago for a weekend. it was fun and i only remember these things below :

exchange student children from germany looooooved becky ;)

the pink boots i was wearing in the pictures were new from chicago gap kids.


we rode the ferris wheel and we all signed our names somewhere.

we rode a limousine.


we ate dinner at the rainforest restaurant.

the bean was in construction and no one was really ice skating.

the view from the hancock building was great, but my digital camera was not.


becky's eye got an infection, but luckily her contacts helped a little.


i was young, silly and chubby.

survived!

my weekend in Chicago with my friend Diana was a lot of fun.

a lot of things happened, and finally i get to take pictures of something i want! haha.

also, i might try to dig out pictures i took in Chicago 4/5 years ago
(that Becky and I went together!)

perhaps saying i survived is a little exaggerated, but it's close...