Sep 9th: downtown Chicago and the trolley Tour

Since the weather was good on the morning of 9th, we decided that we should do the major part of sight seeing that day. So we headed towards downtown and after successfully wasting more than half a “world famous stuffed” pizza at Giordano's, we hopped on to the trolley tour in an open topped bus. Our first stop was at Millennium Park. This park is right in the center of downtown and is most admired for its world class architecture, landscaping and live performances. After watching Crown Fountain, Kapoor Sculpture, Jay Pritzker Pavilion and a Mexican concert ( it happened to be Mexican Independence day on 9th) we hopped back into our bus to continue the journey.

The Crown Fountain has 2 high glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers have changing video images and lights, and water cascades from the top of each making it one of the most enjoyable spots in the park.

The Kapoor Sculpture is a fascinating 110-ton elliptical sculpture designed by the celebrated artist Anish Kapoor. The sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly-polished stainless steel "plates" that create an elliptically-arched, highly reflective work with Chicago’s skyline and Millennium Park itself as a dramatic backdrop. What you are seeing here is a reflection of us on the sculpture.

This is the train that spiderman stops from falling into the lake :)

After this, we decided that we would not hop in and out of the tour but rather complete it in one go. We went on to see the Museum, Financial street, Hyatt and Sheraton hotels, theater district, Navy Pier and finally reached back at Sears Tower.

Thankfully it was not too cloudy and we were able to see the city's spread from the top of the tower. It is a breath-taking concrete jungle!I think the view is best in the evening when the sun just sets and all the street lights are on and the view is just overwhelming.

That was the end of day1 of our trip, but ofcourse the search for vegetarian food began ...thankfully we were able to head to devon street ( the indian forte in Chicago) before 10 and we managed to get some good food.