More Chicago

 I might have forgotten to mention that Hackneys had about 30 beers on tap and one of these was New Holland’s Dragon Milk.  Well, between my $1.50 Tecate and John’s stout, we couldn’t really feel our legs when we left the restaurant.  We were able to find another book store, with a cat that found it very interesting to swipe at customers on ladders,  and took a stroll through Millenium Park, trying to avoid the throngs of people at Taste of Chicago.  We caught a bit of the 

 symphony in the park and what a bandshell, the acoustics coming off this funky bit of siding was incredible.  We played around with the Kapoor sculpture Cloud Gate, or Bean, or whatever you want to call it.  This was a very interesting new attraction and not here the last time that we were, so we took a lot of pictures with it, watched the sun set over the Chicago River and hiked upstairs to the room.  John was out with about 10 seconds of reading his book, so Chicago has worn us out 

 in one day flat.  I’m going to blame it on the heat. 
       We started out the morning to walk the river out to the lake and once you’ve done that, you might as well go on to Navy Pier and check out the touristy stuff.I’m making this sound like a plan, but it wasn’t people.  I 

wanted food and we wanted to walk down the river, but guess where there is no food?  No vendors even for a pastry,   nothing, nada, zip except a lot of people running along the river, or biking the river, or kayaking the river… All the exercise

  that other people were doing was making me hungrier and the trip to Navy Pier became a way of knowing that there would be food available.  We were able to get some pretzels to eat for calories and continue our walking.  Ali had said that the ferris wheel on 

Navy Pier was her favorite, so we had to have a go when a friend recommends something.  It was fun to be up that high, seeing all over the place, and we got some great pictures.  At this point, it was time to get back to the hotel to shower (because it is that freaking hot outside) and change for Book of Mormon.