Day 20,21,22 Chicago, IL

After driving straight from Minneapolis through Wisconsin to Illinois, we finally made it to Chicago! Our main purpose stopping in Chicago was to see Alex`s sister Inna, but we ended up loving the city and staying for 4 nights. Our first day there we took a train into the city, with Inna being our guide, and spent the whole day walking around. I always forget how fast paced cities are until I`m actually in them with locals leading us. We spent the day walking like there was no tomorrow, but we did as a result get to see pretty much the whole city on foot.

We loved how clean and beautiful the city. And we especially loved sitting next to Lake Michigan, soaking up some vitamin D and watching all the huge yachts and sailboats coming in. 

The huge art pieces in the city were pretty incredible too. And we totally looked like tourists freaking out about how cool they were and taking hundreds of pictures. 

We also got to take a little cruise up the Chicago river and learn about all the architecture in the city. It was actually really interesting and a great way to see the city.

The next day we had  a pretty casual day and didn`t go into the actual city, but Friday evening we went downtown again to see the Museum of Science and Industry. It was one of the coolest Museums I`ve ever been too with an actual submarine, airplane and all kinds of things you could learn about. They also had an entire floor about the human body, which I was enjoying until I found out that their prenatal section was made up of all real human embryos and babies (with samples from 28 days old to a full-term baby) that they have preserved in some kind of plastic. It kind of ruined the experience for me...

After that though we went out to dinner (which it was not easy to eat after seeing that fyi) with a distant relative of Alex`s that we`d met at a cousin`s wedding. He showed us around the city some more and we got to see Chicago at night.

 We had such a good time walking around the city with him that we ended up staying out till the wee hours of the morning powered by sushi and coffee.

All in all, Chicago was one of our favorite stops we`ve had on the trip so far and we`re definitely going to try to make it back their again soon!