Day 5: Chicago

Good morning, friends!

The little card under my door today says that it's sunny with a high of 81 and a low of 63. Sounds perfect! The plan for today is to update my blog, get some breakfast, hit the gym at the club or go for a bike ride along the river - I haven't yet decided, have lunch with my friend Alex, and then go on a tour led by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Their website isn't working right now, which is highly annoying, but it's not too far from where I'm staying, so I can just go there and find out what the story is.

A few housekeeping items:

1) I have made some edits to previous posts to correct inaccurate information, misspellings, word omissions, and grammatical errors. If you noticed an error, please check to make sure I corrected it, and if I didn't, please let me know so I can fix it as soon as possible.

2) As I predicted in my first posting, I forgot something at home - the cord to sync my camera to my computer. I will eventually make my way to a big box store that carries such items, but until then, I'm only able to include photos that were taken on my phone. I will insert the others later.

3) It looks like I'll be staying in Chicago for an extra day. The De La Rosas are having a party on Thursday night that I would really like to attend.

More on what I did yesterday:

I visited the University of Chicago with my godparents, Uncle Joe and Aunt Kathy, yesterday. What a beautiful school! (That is except for the main library, some of the dorms, the School of Social Work, and a couple other buildings) I got to see some very special places in Hyde Park. I saw the library where my mom spent most of her undergraduate and graduate career, the chapel where my parents were married (the first time - haha), the midway where the 1892 World's Fair took place, Obama's house, the Starbucks where my parents and Uncle Joe used to hang out (just kidding - there was no Starbucks in the early '70s, silly!), the gym where Barack Obama and Arne Duncan played basketball, and Milton Friedman's office, where I had my diaper changed as a baby. His office is the one on the top floor.

We also visited the Robie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It was awesome! While I'm here, I definitely want to visit Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, IL. Is it too late for me to become an architect?

We had dinner with Kristen, Ian, and Addie, my godparents' niece, son-in-law, and granddaughter. Kristen is Uncle Joe and Aunt Kathy's niece, but after the death of her mother they essentially adopted her and treat her as their daughter. Ian is her husband, and Addie is their 9 week-old daughter. The last time I saw Kristen was at Joe and Kathy's wedding, about fifteen or sixteen years ago. At 14, I was officially the oldest flower girl in America. We had a great time, ate yummy pizza, played with the baby, and everyone else talked about the Cubs.

Addie and me

Time to start my day now! I will update again later.

Have a great day!!