Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down

Today started out great because I actually got a good night sleep. I got up and showered at 7:30. I had breakfast and then we headed out the door to catch the L for downtown. It was cool to finally ride it. It wasn't really anything to right home about. When we got to our stop, it exited to this really cool builiding.

We walked around for a little bit looking at the cool statues and architecture. It really is a pretty city.

Then we headed over to the former Sears Tower. It wasn’t too crowded, which was nice. We headed to the top. You can see really far. The coolest fact I probably learned is that Chicago means Wild Onion. On the west side of the building they have these glass enclosures that extend off of the building so that it looks like you are walking on air. I thought that I would have issues with it, but it actually wasn’t that bad and you can get some pretty cool pictures there.

Then we hopped back onto an L train after wandering around looking for it. Before heading back to Oak Park, we made one stop at Cook County Hospital. This may not mean a lot to most of you, but as a really big ER fan, it meant a lot. This is the hospital where the show took place. Most of the stuff featured on the show was made up, but this is the closest thing that I could get, so it was pretty exciting. We took a moment to listen to the ER theme song. It was great. They also had a statue dedicated to Louis Pasteur there, which I thought was pretty random.

Then we headed back to Oak Park. Owen’s mom was kind enough to pick us up from the L stop and we had lunch at Potbellys. It’s a sandwich shop.  It was delicious. I had a meatball sub. One of the reasons that made it so delicious is the fact that they cut the meatballs in half. This makes eating a meatball sandwich ten times easier.

Then we went back to the Barnes’ residence and watched the BYU basketball game. Even though they ended up losing by 20 pts., I was still proud to be a Cougar. They did well. The score really doesn’t reflect how well they played. Marquette was just too much for us to handle. Sad to know that I won’t be able to see Noah Hartsock play anymore. It has been amazing to see him progress the past four years. He has improved every year and is a solid free throw shooter.

After that we just kind of hung out until dinner. It was amazing as is usual here at Owen’s home. It was this honey chicken, rice and broccoli. For dessert we had moose tracks brownie ice cream. So good!

Then after dinner we watch Live Free or Die Hard. Good movie. I do think we are over reliant on technology and that does make us vulnerable to some sort of cyber warfare. The film does a good job at raising those issues. Great day. More to come tomorrow!