Por fin.

The long-awaited day has finally arrived! With all other options exhausted, I finally had my little sister, Pookie, e-mail me her favorite pictures (of me) from my trip to Chicago. So this is basically a tag-team operation you are about experience. She picked out the shots, I lived them and am going to talk about them.

Never fear, desperate ladies of the blogosphere! This sexy drunk-looking homeless man is none other than yours truly waiting for our ride at the airport.

God was watching over me. JK people. This right here is the Crown Fountain at Millenium Park. Absolute must-see if you go to Chicago. This 50-foot pillar rotates pictures of scenery and several residents of the Windy City. It really gets fun when the people pucker up and....
...squirt little kids. It is a blast.

Here I am with some gigantic art sculpture near the train station. If you could see the whole thing you might think that Godzilla dropped his favorite red ninja star. Well, that is exactly what happened.

The enormous shiny bean at Millenium Park. Chicago is home to some great modern art, as well as the most beautiful artitechure I have ever seen. It seem like each of the sky-scrapers has it's own story and symbolism, yet they all complement each other so well. Our first night in the city I walked the streets in awe as we continued to pass building after building. Seriously, it is SLC times 1,000.

We took the opportunity to take a family photo with the help of the Bean.

Oh what a time we had. If you notice most of these pictures are bright and white it is because the camera's settings just loved to change as it bounced around in my pocket. Bleh.


Here I am with Jerusalem, our phenomenal tour guide (lover of booze, fried chicken, and Oprah) on the double-decker bus tour we took on our one full day of sight-seeing we had. I would totally recommend this to anyone. For only $29 you can see the whole city in about 2 and half hours, get on and off as you please, take other tours to Wrigley Field, Chinatown, Oprah Store, etc, you get a free (crappy) T-shirt, coupons, and if you are lucky enough to get a guide like we did, you will laugh you face off. Let me explain. At one point of the tour, Jerusalem got especially excited as she pointed out the sales and restuarants of a certain street. As she does this a branch comes up behind her and she totally does a Matrix moves and dodges it without missing a beat. True story. I kid you not, it was amazing.

Here I am at Lollapalooza. (Can you find me?) This is where we spent three days enjoying great music and enduring miserable weather. As you can see Lolla provides great views of (A) the Chicago skyline, (B) the bands performing, and (C) shirtless dudes. It was a lot of fun, but it got mad the later in the day it was. We had great views of the up-and-comers, but it became Sardine-apalooza for most established acts like Snoop Dogg, Santigold, and Kings of Leon.

And then I came home and wrote this blog.