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thewhitelily) wrote2008-05-22 11:14 pm
thewhitelily) wrote2008-05-22 11:14 pm
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USA Day 1: Chicago
5:15 in the morning is too early for anything, let alone the beginning of a 36 hour day, sixteen hours of which was spent sitting in exactly the same spot, and another eight and a half in queues of various description.
I did, however, finish off the Mystery Festival. One of my favourite characters (the mafia guy who threatens your stuffed toys if you fall behind in your loan repayments) has unfortunately been gutted (and not in a mafia sense, either), but the Inspector was very useful in changing the whole way everything worked. Not entirely thrilled with the results, but it's at least done. So I guess the answer is: yes, I can do a bodge-job if I'm kept to the task by the ticking down of my laptop battery and kept from getting distracted by being strapped in an economy seat for thirteen hours. :P
There was a section of turbulence for the LA-Chicago leg, which was quite fun indeed - there were people yahooing and so on like a rollercoaster - although the worst thing about the entire trip was that someone was leaning on the hostess call-button throughout the entire descent, so the bell was going "ding... ding... ding... ding..." AARGH!
By the time we’d arrived in Chicago towards the end of a very strange day, Macca's (or as we see on the signs over here “Micky D’s”) was seeming like a good option for dinner. A quintessential American restaurant, maybe, but perhaps not the best of plans on a stomach already vaguely queasy from flying. So, instead, we decided on barbecue ribs. :P Then we wandered around taking photos of the pretty lights.
This last is “The Bean”, a 110 tonne steel sculpture which is made to resemble a drop of mercury on the point of hitting the ground.
We’ve just crossed from winter to summer, and that’s why it seems so ridiculous to be freezing our rear ends off. We poor Brisbanites knew it was going to be cold, but we're such wusses at 10C! Hopefully it won’t get much colder than this, or we’ll have no jumpers left to put on on top of one another. :)
I did, however, finish off the Mystery Festival. One of my favourite characters (the mafia guy who threatens your stuffed toys if you fall behind in your loan repayments) has unfortunately been gutted (and not in a mafia sense, either), but the Inspector was very useful in changing the whole way everything worked. Not entirely thrilled with the results, but it's at least done. So I guess the answer is: yes, I can do a bodge-job if I'm kept to the task by the ticking down of my laptop battery and kept from getting distracted by being strapped in an economy seat for thirteen hours. :P
There was a section of turbulence for the LA-Chicago leg, which was quite fun indeed - there were people yahooing and so on like a rollercoaster - although the worst thing about the entire trip was that someone was leaning on the hostess call-button throughout the entire descent, so the bell was going "ding... ding... ding... ding..." AARGH!
By the time we’d arrived in Chicago towards the end of a very strange day, Macca's (or as we see on the signs over here “Micky D’s”) was seeming like a good option for dinner. A quintessential American restaurant, maybe, but perhaps not the best of plans on a stomach already vaguely queasy from flying. So, instead, we decided on barbecue ribs. :P Then we wandered around taking photos of the pretty lights.
This last is “The Bean”, a 110 tonne steel sculpture which is made to resemble a drop of mercury on the point of hitting the ground.
We’ve just crossed from winter to summer, and that’s why it seems so ridiculous to be freezing our rear ends off. We poor Brisbanites knew it was going to be cold, but we're such wusses at 10C! Hopefully it won’t get much colder than this, or we’ll have no jumpers left to put on on top of one another. :)
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(Poke me sometime if you want to see a pic Christina took of me photographing the Bean. Think you'd get a laugh out of it.)
Pity you didn't stop at Ed Debevic's... that's about as American a reception as you can get from a restaurant. ;D
Chicago is vair pretty, though, when all lit up. People do scary brilliant photography at DA of it. Might want to check some of it out sometime.
Hope you're having funnnnz.
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Will try to remember to poke for picture at some point. :)
Oh, yeah, it was just gorgeous with all the lights, and lots of fun for photographing. Had a few odd looks from people for being all done up in my parka with a tripod/etc., but *shrug*.
*grin* Absolutely.
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You look like you're having an awesome time!
Re: You look like you're having an awesome time!