It is hard to sleep in here. We have Venetian blinds in our room (does anyone think these are good things?) and our room is on the east side of the building. So when the sun rises our room immediately fills with light. So there's no lazing around in the morning.
We checked online and found that there is a post office not too far from us, and one that we had walked past a few times. Well that's not strictly true. We had walked past the building it is in a few times, but there is nothing on the building to let us know the post office is inside!! Anyway, the lady at the front desk of the building was able to direct us to the post office so we could finally buy some stamps.
Except they didn't have any international stamps!! How hard is it really!! Well, that's not strictly true. They did find some international stamps but we had already purchased a pile of other stamps to use. One more thing we can cross off the list.
Our room was very warm this morning. For some reason when the sun is beating through the window the thermometer decides to blow warm air as well, so by the time we were heading out it was very warm. Because of this, or perhaps just because I am an idiot, I decided not to wear a coat this morning. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Anne and I went on an Architecural Tour today looking at some of the landmark buildings that were built after the Chigaco Fire of 1871 (**Check that date**). The evolution of buildings here, both in height and in style, is fascinating. We have a greater appreciation of some of these buildings now. If you visit Chicago, we would encourage you to take at least one of the tours from the Chicago Architecural Foundation.
But if you are not doing these tours in summer, wear a coat. Standing in the shadows of the buildings with wind blowing around you will chill you to your core. Trust me. Experience tells me this is so. I have spent the afternoon inside with my beanie on trying to warm up. But it has been nice to do nothing through the afternoon.
It was good to chat with Daniel today during one of his early morning starts at work. He looked as cold as I felt.
Tom joined us for dinner at Rudy's Bar & Grill. We enjoyed some of their famous Burgers - which were large but not impossible. When the waitress recommended we enjoy a chocolate cookie for dessert she described it is something we could share. But even with three of us we couldn't finish it.
For a late night experience, Anne and I went to Andy's Jazz Club. There we heard a jazz session from the (misnamed) Fareed Haque & The Funk Brothers. The venue was great and felt like a classic jazz spot, and I found myself feeling like SpongeBob and Patrick developing an appreciation of free-form jazz. But I was looking for the Funk and Groove sound. We only heard a bit of that, but it was very good. Shame they didn't play more.
The walk back to our rooms was without incident, which can only be a good thing.
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