My Trip to Chicago (& Detroit) [Lots of Pics!!] :D

Hi everyone! The past Saturday - Monday I went on a trip to Chicago & Detroit with my mom on one of those coach buses :p
It was SO much fun. We visited the Henry Ford Museum, went to the Shedd Aquarium, went up to the John Hancock Tower, went shopping & alot more hehe.
Anyways..I took alot of pics. I won't be posting them all because there would be too much. I'll show you guys some though. ;)

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Byebye Toronto! :p

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I'm pretty sure the building to the right is the ACC; Air Canada Centre. The building up front is the Royal York Hotel.

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Crossing the bridge to the Canada/US border to Michigan.
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At the Ford Museum..(its in Detroit I think)
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More coming..

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^^That's me :p The only pic I'm actually in lol. & ew I look bad in it too..I was getting annoyed cuz my mom was taking so long to take the pic.


At our first hotel; the Hilton Garden Inn
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& look what I brought with me :D hehe
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Then the next morning we drove to Downtown Chicago. The city is seriously FULL of beautiful skyscrapers!
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^^ A Picasso sculpture :D
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Then we went to the Shedd Aquarium. It was so fun, I loved the whales there. The belugas were SOOO cute!!
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Awww! I want to touch it hehe :D

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^^That's another beluga whale, it swam so fast I missed the head lol
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lol that's a real fish..It looks fake though.
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^^Turtle; couldn't get its head either :p

looks like lots of fun

Just a few random pics..
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^^ The Wrigley Building! (the gum company lol)


Next, we went on this Architectural Boat Cruise. It brought us around the city in a boat along the river, showing us the buildings & everything
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^^ I loved those two. The bottom were parking spaces for cars, & below that were parking spaces for boats.
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did you get to pet the penguins

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^^ the Sears Tower (the black/grey one)
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Then we went on top of the John Hancock Building. I THINK thats the second tallest building in Chicago. We weren't allowed on the Sears Tower :(
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Great pics :)

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Great pics :)

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yeah great pics

This place is a small village thing with houses & shops like the ones in Holland. The style is like it.
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The next night, we went to a Casino & Resort to stay at called the Soaring Eagle. It was the best hotel I've ever stayed at! It was HUGE. Clickk --That would be the site for it hehe
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This is a very small part of the front of it. I couldn't get a better shot:(

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^^This is at a place called Frankenmuth, where the streets were like Germany houses. That building is called the Bavarian Inn. We went down there to their shops.

Then we went to a place called Christmas Wonderland. Its a HUGE store open 361 days a year selling all Christmas stuff.
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The last day we went shopping:D
Just a few pics of the stuff I got hehe -

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& I'll throw in one of Blueberry :p
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That's all! Hope you enjoyed :)

it looks like you got a lot of great stuff there :D and Blueberry is so adorable :D

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Don't feel bad. I've lived here my whole life and I've never been to the top of the Sears Tower. :) Great pics!

OMG! Those whales are ADORABLE!!!!! Awww! I want one. :D

Why weren't you allowed in the Sears Tower? :( The view is SO amazing from up there.

I've have always though the view from the John Hancock much better than Sears anyway.....;) ;)

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I agree. It's not just the view, but the ambiance that makes it nicer.

I didn't know the Sears Tower was closed! If it's really windy nad/or stormy I know they'll close it. I just checked and it looks like you can still buy tickets online, so maybe it was closed just for the day.....

Great pictures!

lol I guess I should've made it clearer :p

We joined a tour thing for the trip (where they bring us everywhere with everyone in our group) & they didn't bring us to the Sears Tower. They used to up to a few years ago..It was because their company didn't want to bring us all up there after 911.