Friday Afternoon and Evening!

Friday after some lunch, we opted to take a swim in the pool area of the hotel which was a greenhouse type structure on the 4th floor roof that was atop their meeting room portion of the hotel. The water was very warm, and you can see my daughter Raquel, and Livia a granddaughter and also Eric's head in the picture, Raquel's husband. It felt great and was a nice way to relax for a couple of hours.

Jennifer and Crystalie and I decided to go see the Bean in Millennium Park, north of our hotel about 10 blocks. It was set in a huge courtyard, and it stands about 25-30 feet tall, and is in the shape of a bean. It is a stainless steel sculpture, that is polished to a mirror like finish.


With the curved surfaces, all the images our distorted some, but it does give a very accurate reflection people were taking pictures from all sorts of angles around it and even under the center. Which you can see is tall enough for people to walk under it!

It was a pretty cool spot, and had lots of visitors, we found out form a cab driver later in the trip, that they actually move it inside for maintenance during the winter. Probably a through cleaning and polishing.
Our evening plan was attending the grooms diner, at a local bar restaurant called the Rockbottom Brewery and Grill. So needless to say we had to find a way to get there, and one of my brother Neal's friends, Kurt, talked to the concierge about getting a large limo to take us there, and in 10 minutes up pulled this long black limo. $5.00 a piece to go about 2 miles int he city traffic, we pile 14 of us in this limo and off we went.

I took our two granddaughters Livia and Addy with us, also and needless to say they were thrilled. Their first limo ride, they were lots of fun thoughts racing through their heads like of the paparazzi would be there when we got out of the car!

We ended up getting a ride home with the same driver, and we also took his limo to the wedding on Saturday and also on our way home later that night! It was fun travelling in style!

The grooms diner was great and there were about 70 people there, the bride and groom realized a lot of people travelled a long ways and wanted to make sure, we all were part of the evening.

Thanks to Matt and Michelle, and also Matt's Mom Deloris!