Girl Gone Globetrotting
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Speaking of different body shapes. These are all basically peak human bodies.
How come 99% of them don’t conform to what the...
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If grandmothers around the world...
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Near the Ngorongoro crater there is a Masaai village about 30 minutes away. One morning on our way to the serengeti we stopped to visit. They showed...
This picture is of me taking a picture of my reflection in The Bean. However, the most interesting part is that there are actually handprints all over The Bean. The Bean is just really a big mirror, so I find it interesting that a bunch of people felt the need to touch it. I’m sure the downpour the next day washed all the handprints away. But I bet the handprints were back on The Bean later that same afternoon.
Photograph by me. July 2011.
Cloud Gate, aka The Bean, is located in Millennium Park. British artist Anish Kapoor’s work is steel which is meant to reflect the Chicago skyline, the clouds above it and the people below. It is 66-feet long and 33-feet tall.
Photography by me. July 2011.
Water, water everywhere. And a whole lot to drink.
One thing I will forever remember about my trip to Chicago in 2011 will be the overpowering heat and humidity. Luckily everyone else there thought it was hot, too. In fact, it was one of the worst heat waves to hit Chi in about five years, according to a Reuters article. I believe it.
My sister estimated we spend more than $100 on water during our five days there (which is hard to do if you’re only paying $1 or $2 for each bottle). I would say it’s close to that. However, thankfully Chicago is located on not one, but two bodies of water, and has many water-oriented monuments.
The Buckingham Fountain (1) was a welcome sight on a particularly hot day. All we wanted to do was put our feet in the fountain. But apparently Chicago disapproves of that because there was a fence at least a foot back surrounding the fountain. The fountain reminded me of the fountain at Versailles, and surprisingly, the Chicago Parks District confirmed my suspicion.
Although we didn’t get to dip our toes in the Buckingham Fountain, we did get to wade into Lake Michigan (2) while walking to Navy Pier one night. In California there aren’t many beaches with skyscrapers as a backdrop, so it was a cool sight.
Continuing with the it’s-really-hot-out theme, someone had graciously set up a make-shift mister system in Millennium Park (3). Needless to say it was a-maz-ing.
During our architectural boat tour, we caught a glimpse of this Chicago skyline (4). More about our boat tour to come.
On what was possibly THE hottest day of our week on the sun in Chicago, we decided to go to Millennium Park. Yeah, I know - we’re geniuses. But we did happen to stumble upon an opera concert rehearsal in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. I’ve never heard opera before, so it was cool to sit down and watch. Not to mention the seats were in the shade.
I’m not even sure what opera this is from, or when this group will or has performed. But the video is only 30 seconds long and the singer has a beautiful voice.
Video by me. July 2011.
