Chi-town: Does anyone actually like the south side?

After passing out at 10:30pm last night, Ryan and I woke up fairly early to start the day in Chicago. Our plan was to take the train down to the Chicago loop and then take the “El” to the north side to enjoy a cubs game. Downtown was incredible. We walked into the Sears tower and saw all of the Olympic flags hanging in preparation for the 2016 summer Olympics. In addition, Ryan and I both looked straight up and realized the Sears tower is indeed ginormous! Similar to my 5th grade field trip to the Twin towers, the line to go to the top was incredibly long so we opted not to do that. Instead we headed further into town and saw the Chicago Trade Center. This building was Wayne Tower in Batman Begins (see pictures below). We then walked to a small park where Picasso’s steel horse was. There was a steep iron base at the foot of the sculpture, perfect for sliding down! Ryan did choose to go with the more conservative method of sliding but none-the-less we both slid in style! (see pictures) After the horse, we continued on to Millennium Park. This is probably one of the cleanest and most entertaining public parks in America. In the middle of this park is a giant polished stainless steel bean! It has all sorts of convex and concave surfaces creating funny and wacky distortions of your reflection. Ryan looked the goofiest. After the park we headed to Wrigleyville for the Cubs game. Unfortunately, scalpers did not have three tickets or tickets that were reasonably priced so we ended up not getting into Wrigley. Instead we went to one of Sutton’s favorite Chicago pizza joints. Ryan and I can honestly say that for $5.00 we got one of the largest slices of pizza in America. It was truly Man vs. Food worthy. Once the game had finished up, we headed back to Highland Park where Sutton lives. He then took us to Michael Jordan’s house. Mr. Jordan has a massive “23” on the gate to his property! As we walked up to the gate, I had Jim Jones “BALLLLIN!” in my head so I convinced Ryan to throw up the jump shot with me as we took the picture. Now its back on the road tonight for Sioux City, IA. Driving tonight will give us an easier day to the Badlands National Park, where I will ride my bison!