Here are some images from our Chicago trip. We drove up there from Columbus at the end of our holiday. We stayed at the Palmer House, an art nouveau palace downtown inside the "loop". It was very luxurious and pricey, but that's normal for AAG meetings.
Of course we saw a lot more of our friends at the meetings. For me, the highlight was meeting up with Vicky Rivizzigno who went through breast cancer treatment last year at the same time as me. There were lots of late-night e-mails and phone calls last year as we compared notes, made suggestions and just kibbitzed away the long hours of chemo-induced pain and misery.
We arrived a day early and spent a whole day at the Art Institute. Wow! what a collection! You'll have to see it for yourselves to appreciate it. Chicago has some wonderful museums and a lovely lake shore setting.
On our last day we wandered along Michigan avenue looking in some of the shops and then meandered back along the lake shore. It was cold and windy, but the sun was shining and it was a very pleasant walk. John was able to add several water fowl to his list and we ended up at the Navy Pier where we took a look at a very nice stained glass exhibit. This sculpture is outside the Children's museum on the Navy Pier.
Unfortunately, by the end of the day I was starting to cough. This was the beginning of the nasty "lurgy" that has been bothering me ever since. Next day we coughed our way out to the airport and started our long journey home. The planes were on time, but there were long waits at Chicago and in Dublin for our connections.
