I had a great morning with Wayne, Helga and baby Kai. Frank came and said good bye. I just love my aunt, uncle and cousin so much.
Made the jaunt to Chicago. Found the traffic. The last eight miles took me a good hour. And my GPS did not work well in the skyscrapers. I did finally find the hotel and parking. Got settled in and found a map. Plotted things out a bit. Then headed to the Willis Tower for the sky deck.
Once there I could buy a combo pass for $45 that gave me entrance to the sky deck and a fast pass to the Art Institute of Chicago. So I did that because it also saved me a couple bucks over the normal single prices of the two places with no fast pass.
That is some view from up there. I stood on the glass deck and looked down. One hundred and three stories high. Incredible. And then the thunderstorm hit. Lightning. Absolutely gorgeous watching the storm come in.
Now I'm not driving in Chicago. So I had walked to the tower and that meant walking back. Got my ten thousand steps in for the day. A lot of those were in rain and more beautiful lightning. I just hoped the buildings were tall enough that they would take the brunt of any strikes. Only one was super close. I looked like a drowned cat when I got back, but it wasn't cold, just wet.
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