Bailey and a fellow-appraising friend, Jon, had been planning for months and months to go to Chicago to take a class to finalize their capstone/dissertation/thing. The time fiiiiinally came. Bailey and Jon flew to Chicago early Sunday morning. Here are a few pictures Bailey captured before I got there.
Breakfast at the Doughnut Vault (an actual old bank vault), just a few blocks from the hotel. The donut is much larger than it appears in the photo.
The gorgeous Chicago skyline.
Picture perfect.
This is the side of our hotel that overlooked the river. We stayed in the Holiday Inn Chicago-mart Plaza. It was on top of the Chicago Sun Times and just along the river. We loved the location.
Sushi hand rolls at Sushi Taiyo.
Italian beef sandwich at Al's Italian Beef.
Just across the street from our hotel.
The guys finished their papers up and turned them in on Wednesday. That afternoon, Jon's wife, Jennifer and I flew up. We dropped our things off at the hotel and headed to eat at Giordano's (which I like much more than Gino's).
Thursday morning we got up and the guys took us over to the Doughnut Vault for breakfast. I got an apple fritter which was sooo good and fresh.
Then we walked on over to the Magnificent Mile and looked around for a while before doing a little shopping.
We ended up eating lunch at Jake Melnick's before going on an architectural boat tour of the city. Lunch wasn't terrible but certainly wasn't the best thing we ate.
The boat tour was fantastic and the afternoon could not have been any more perfect.
Our hotel was above the Chicago Sun Times.
We made a quick trip over to Navy Pier after the boat tour.
That night for dinner we went to Gene and Georgetti for some delicious steaks.
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