Time to blog my Memorial Day trip to Chicago!
I will use a photo essay to tell the story of this quick but lovely trip:
As has become my routine, my trip to Chicago began with a ride on the "L" to Wrigley Field, via the Addison stop on the Red Line:
I arrived at the game early because I love a good walk around Wrigley Field, fairest park in all of Major League Baseball Land:
During my leisurely stroll and the scene-soaking in that accompanies it, I admired the handiwork of the grounds crew:
One of the things I realized on this trip is that I may be the only 35-year old single woman who enjoys going by myself to Cubs games in cities in which I do not live. Would I prefer it if my friends and family enjoyed the games enough to go as well? Sure. But with so many friends with young kiddos and so few folks interested in devoting themselves to an entire game (let alone three entire games), along with the travel to and from such games, I would never make it to see the Cubs if I waited for people to want to go. So instead, as always, I made new friends at the game. (Yet another thing that makes Wrigley the 8th wonder of the world is the friendliness of its visitors).
We later explored the Wrigleyville bar scene to celebrate the Cubs' win (and to drown our sorrows concerning what we feared was a very serious injury to Cubs pitcher Mark Prior)!
On Saturday, I made more friends at the game, and the Cubs won again!
I navigated the very-congested I-88 Superhighway and headed straight to Aurora after the game. There I visited my friend Beth and her family, caught up with her parents over dinner, found a new source for good Cubs tickets and photographed her kids and their new puppy, Maisie!
Sunday took me back to Chicago for another game, which the Cubs won (again!):
This lone fan was apparently reluctant to leave the park after the Cubs' sweep of the Rockies!
The drummers on Waveland Avenue celebrated:
I retrieved my car from my new favorite Wrigley Field parking spot--the Faith Tabernacle Church parking lot on Halsted--and headed downtown to visit Millenium Park, where I saw . . .
Chess players:
Lots of onlookers at the faces:
Bored teens:
Squirting water:
And a fascinated, cute-as-a-button small boy:
Curious visitors to Cloud Gate, also known as "the bean", which is being refinished:
The beautiful Ghery-created band shell:
A sea of red chairs:
Interesting piece of band shell:
The park has the softest grass I have ever felt:
A wonderful expanse of lavendar before tall city buildings:
The Ghery-designed curvy silver bridge:
With a lovely lake view as a reward for the walk to the other side:
A trek to a favorite place, with a stop at the Wrigley Building en route:
My destination:
And a beautiful last twilit look at downtown Chicago:
As has become my routine, my trip to Chicago began with a ride on the "L" to Wrigley Field, via the Addison stop on the Red Line:
I arrived at the game early because I love a good walk around Wrigley Field, fairest park in all of Major League Baseball Land:
During my leisurely stroll and the scene-soaking in that accompanies it, I admired the handiwork of the grounds crew:
One of the things I realized on this trip is that I may be the only 35-year old single woman who enjoys going by myself to Cubs games in cities in which I do not live. Would I prefer it if my friends and family enjoyed the games enough to go as well? Sure. But with so many friends with young kiddos and so few folks interested in devoting themselves to an entire game (let alone three entire games), along with the travel to and from such games, I would never make it to see the Cubs if I waited for people to want to go. So instead, as always, I made new friends at the game. (Yet another thing that makes Wrigley the 8th wonder of the world is the friendliness of its visitors).
We later explored the Wrigleyville bar scene to celebrate the Cubs' win (and to drown our sorrows concerning what we feared was a very serious injury to Cubs pitcher Mark Prior)!
On Saturday, I made more friends at the game, and the Cubs won again!
I navigated the very-congested I-88 Superhighway and headed straight to Aurora after the game. There I visited my friend Beth and her family, caught up with her parents over dinner, found a new source for good Cubs tickets and photographed her kids and their new puppy, Maisie!
Sunday took me back to Chicago for another game, which the Cubs won (again!):
This lone fan was apparently reluctant to leave the park after the Cubs' sweep of the Rockies!
The drummers on Waveland Avenue celebrated:
I retrieved my car from my new favorite Wrigley Field parking spot--the Faith Tabernacle Church parking lot on Halsted--and headed downtown to visit Millenium Park, where I saw . . .
Chess players:
Lots of onlookers at the faces:
Bored teens:
Squirting water:
And a fascinated, cute-as-a-button small boy:
Curious visitors to Cloud Gate, also known as "the bean", which is being refinished:
The beautiful Ghery-created band shell:
A sea of red chairs:
Interesting piece of band shell:
The park has the softest grass I have ever felt:
A wonderful expanse of lavendar before tall city buildings:
The Ghery-designed curvy silver bridge:
With a lovely lake view as a reward for the walk to the other side:
A trek to a favorite place, with a stop at the Wrigley Building en route:
My destination:
And a beautiful last twilit look at downtown Chicago:
posted by Lisa at 3:44 PM
1 Comments:
I like the red chair picture as well. It sort of reminds me of something I saw in a dream once. Neat pics.
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