Chicago Favorites // Navy Pier over Labor Day
Ben and I spent this weekend just outside Chicago and while most of it was spent cooped up in a hotel (me training and him studying), we did venture into the city after everything wrapped up on Monday. I visited Navy Pier in November but this was my first time in the summer and Ben’s first Chicago experience. Yes, its a little touristy, but on a 75 degree day with blue skies and billowing clouds, you can’t pass up a beautiful windy view of the water.
We spent a few hours just wandering the pier, eating very expensive ice-cream (its practially robbery, I’m telling you), and dancing as the 90s band played cover after cover. Next time we’re in Chicago we’ll be a little less touristy, unless its another beautiful day, and then you can bet we’ll be right back at the waters edge.
^^These people were holding up a proposal sign for someone on the ferris wheel!
^Whenever I get Haagen-Dazs I get something with caramel – yum 🙂
^Its hard to guess we’re just outside a bustling city.
Inside Navy Pier they have a neat stained glass museum and I couldn’t get over the beauty of this Tiffany window ^^^
^^A band in here played old favorites while we listened in from the pier
^I have an irrational fear of birds. The beady eyes and the sharp beaks make me shudder.
^^Chicago does have a beautiful skyline
Until next time, Chicago!
Hey, we were in Chicago for Labor Day, too! Only we were in Millenium Park.
The Random Writings of Rachel
Such gorgeous photos! Love the sea and the lighthouse in the distance. I'm glad you had a lovely day!
Aw this looks like a perfect Labor Day!
Carly
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Thats my city! 🙂
I too have an irrational fear of birds! I flinch whenever they fly over my head!
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What a beautiful place!! One day, when I grow up 😉 I will visit Lake Michigan.
xo,
Ana Paula
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Life's more fun when you're a tourist in your hometown every once and a while. 🙂 omg, I totally know how you feel about birds. They are terrifying! I watched that old Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds" a few years ago and, even as cheesy and old as it was, I am now more than a little nervous when I see large flocks of them.