The Pasty Quail in Chicago: Cityscape

Though we couldn't spend a terribly long time downtown (my parents live about 40 miles, or an hour drive, from the city), here are a few pictures of the cityscape.

First are a few shots from Millennium Park taken on that rainy Wednesday after we visited The Art Institute. Situated about two blocks north of museum, the park was about the only place we could walk without submitting to a drenched chill. Luckily, the wind I mentioned in the museum post had subsided, but it was still sleeting. Thus, we did our best to capture the surroundings in the short time we had.

- Looking Southwest:


- Then Northwest, at the Frank Gehry sculpture:


- Then due North up Michigan Avenue:



And then, here are a couple of the park itself.

The Monument:


Ice Skating:




On Friday, we headed back to The Windy City for a play at Water Tower Place, which is located on the stretch of Michigan Avenue known as The Magnificent Mile, Chicago's worthy adversary to Fifth Avenue in New York.

First a shot from the doors of Water Tower Place looking down the Avenue:


Next, here are two shots of the Old Water Tower, a tremendously famous landmark along the Mile.





Though, quite unfortunately, the weather was not nice enough to allow a picture of the Sears Tower when we were in that part of town, here's a good picture of the second tallest building in Chicago (for the time being), the John Hancock Building:


Finally, on our way back to the car, we passed Da famous Coach's restaurant, complete with a caricature of the man himself: