Trip to Huntley, IL - September 2009

Granny came to Chicago to spend 10 days at the Berggren's.

One day Jaki, Jeremy & I went to Chicago for the day on the Metra.

We walked from the train station to Navy Pier.

We saw lots of skyscrapers!


Then we stopped at Millennium Park to see "Cloud Gate", the monumental sculpture. It is a major feature of Millennium Park. It is called the "Bean"! You can see why.

We had lots of fun with the reflections!

The building on the right is where Jim lived in his corporate apartment when he lived downtown Chicago for 2 years. The "Bean" wasn't there then!

Then we headed for Navy Pier. Jaki & I wanted to go on the ferris wheel but Jeremy was frightened and didn't want to go.

Mommy tricked him to get him on, he cried on the way up, but on the way down he loved it and wanted to go again!

For being such a good sport he earned an ice cream cone!

Since we had walked many miles we boarded a water taxi for a ride back to the train station.

We went under many bridges and saw all of the skyscrapers from the river.

We even saw a train going over the bridge that we went under!!

Spectacular!!!

In the shiny windows of the skyscrapers we saw reflections of other skyscrapers!

Cool!

We even saw the Sears Tower from the water taxi!

And then we learn they have changed the Sears Tower to the Willis Tower.

That is crazy! It will always be the Sears Tower to us!!

This is the new Trump Towers.

We boared the train and had a great ride home on the top of the double decker train!

Another day Jaki took Maureen and I too the Japanese Gardens in Rockford where we had lunch and toured the gardens.

Beautiful scenery!

Lovely weather!

And great company!

It was so fun to see Maureen again! Now it is her turn to come to Seattle for lunch!!

Thank you, Jaki for another fun day!

We had a busy week. Jeremy went to school every day and one night we baked cookies!

And did some sewing on Granny's sewing machine.