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First of all, this new blog site uses the same password as the old one, if you need it...

The first picture is taken on the tour boat in Chicago. We were on the Chicago River at this point. It was an architectural and historical tour of Chicago, along the river and out on Lake Michigan. It was a perfect day for it!

The second picture was taken last Saturday in Detroit at the Henry Ford Museum. It is the actual bus (restored) that Rosa Parks was on when she refused to give up her seat to a white person. Hayley is sitting where Rosa Parks sat, and Marina is in the "white" section in front of her.

The next photo is also from the Ford Museum - do any of you remember the Oscar Mayer weiner-mobile??

The next one is the girls in front of Bob, of Bob's Big Boy fame (we sometimes called it Robert's Large Lad). They haven't had these restaurants in the west for some time, but they are still going strong in the midwest. I was once a Bob's waitress in Tucson, just for the record.

The next picture is in front of the Chocolate Haus in the Amana colonies in Iowa. They were settled by German immigrants in the mid-1800s and have been restored. Interesting history, quaint villages, good German restaurants, etc. The girls are drinking "cold hot chocolates," a specialty at the Chocolate Haus.

The final picture is at the John Deere pavillion in Moline, Illinois along the waterfront of the Mississippi River. We took a boat along the river and then toured some shops, etc. along the waterfront on both the Illinois and Iowa sides.

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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.

ESH