Welcome - Part 2 of the road trip

We arrived in Chicago yesterday. On Saturday, we toured the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. There were some awesome exhibits there, including the actual bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat (I'll post a picture of Marina and Hayley siting the exact seat she sat in), the OscarMayer weiner-mobile, and the car JFK was assassinated in.

Chicago is great, just like everyone said it would be. Last night, we went to one of Chicago's famous deep-dish pizza restaurants and shopped along the "Miracle Mile." We are staying right across the street from the Hancock Bldg. and just down the street from Water Tower Place. The hotel is great - it's really an apartment, with kitchen, separate bedroom and living room, etc.

Today we went on an architectural/historical boat tour of Chicago, which went along the Chicago River, through the locks, and out onto Lake Michigan. Very cool. And then we spent the rest of the afternoon on Navy Pier. Tonight we found some great Chinese food for dinner, and then went to Borders where Hayley bought another book. (Sidebar: Hayley has not posted a blog in a while because she has become hooked on the Pendragon series of books and cannot tear herself away from them. She has bought a book a day and read the entire thing that evening for the past several days. She is now on book 6, and book 7 is only in hardcover, I think, so she may be free by tomorrow night!)

I'll post this now and then try to upload some pictures.

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