Wow! Five states in 12 hours of drive time! Quite a day. We travelled through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska with a glorious three hour layover in Chicago. We all agreed that the windy city is impressive and seems very liveable. It didn't hurt that today was sunny and 70's AND a holiday which meant happy people all around. Indvertently we had an extra hour to explore because we forgot about the time zone change and arrived before the Art Institute opened at 10:30. We visited the "bean", walked along the magnificent mile, and wandered down to the pathway along lake Michigan to check out all the sailboats. The gang humored me a bit and spent time viewing a special exhibit at the museum called Passion for Fashion which highlighted style inspired by the Impressionists, my favorite being Seurat's La Grande Jatte. Lunch was at the Grille in Millenium Park, then as we were walking back to the car, Garrett and Paige got frisky with one of the statues on the promenade. Either Joel was unaware of the shenanigans or he didn't approve!
After Chicago we still had a good 7 and a half hours to our Omaha Nebraska Hampton. All four of us took a turn at the wheel as the route was pretty much a straight shot west on Route 80. Surprisingly though the landscape was extremely green and dotted with lovely farms. The cornfields went on forever as the road rolled up and down. Also abundant were magestic windmills, hundreds of them! Country soon turned into suburbs which merged into the fairly large city of Omaha which we entered as the sun set. We had already researched a dinner spot called the Upstream Brewery where we received free beer compliments of the Hampton. Not bad:) Weary bones tonight I'm afraid but no complaints.
That must have been a lonnng day. But you're used to it. Too bad you could not have spent a night and day in Chicago. Joel is coming to dinner tonight.
ReplyDeleteCan you smell smoke yet?
m&d