04-06/07/10 Chicago

It seems that we were in Chicago at the right time. On the 4th of July, we have a BBQ on the waterfront and later, we watch the fireworks. The parks and the beaches are crowded with people barbecuing. But since all good things come to an end, once the fireworks are over, that is at 9:30pm, the police just pushes everybody out of the parks. There were police helicopteres spotlighting and police officers patrolling the parks and the beaches on their noisy ATV. I felt like a bad action movie.

The next day, we do a tour of Hyde Park with Anna, Benton and Miro and later, have another bbq in the backyard. Finally, we decide to leave on the 6th. Thank you Miro, Anna, Benton, Chris, Micha and Nate for having us during these days and sharing with us all the good sides of Chicago. We will never forget it. I hope you will come in Montreal one day so we can show you our City...But please do not come all together at the same time. I guess our apartment will be smaller than yours. Haha!

For our last day in Chicago, we decide to go downtown and have a real Chicago Pizza. Well... not sure if it a pizza or a pie but yes it did fill our stomach.

Then, we went at Yevi's place, a friend of Monica from Toledo. She had a really nice apartment downtown Chicago. We cooked shrimps for her and had a great time talking and drinking wine with her. Now Xavier was partiularly happy, as she was the first engineer we were meeting on this trip! Thank you Yevi!