Guess who

Well, here he is...

I think the picture speaks for itself.

We took Adam out for dinner

and look forward to the college tour tomorrow.

Bloomingdales Chicago

The exterior of Bloomingdales is pretty

More Lego Fun

Lego Land Chicago

Look how nicely the pieces are sorted!

The Ralph Lauren Store

I didn't take either of these photos

but they are of Ralph Lauren store interiors

which look very much the same as the one in Chicago

where Bret and I meandered through.

All I can say is the interior decorator can give me advice any time.

More Chicago

Some church eye candy:

Some fun condo architecture:

Ceiling in Macy's

Chicago

These are some examples of the interesting architecture

around downtown Chicago: This one looks like the Gothic style palaces

on the Grand Canal in Venice:

( see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(Venice )

This is the Cloud Gate or the "Bean"
as described in the Millenium Park website:
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives. Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the At&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T.

My new Italian friends!

(Oh, I always put the photos in backwards!

Anyway, here is a magnificent chess set

(which we didn't buy)

It's the Pazzi family versus the Medici family.

A view of the store with their beautiful offerings
The store is called I Medici
It is in downtown Chicago in a big mall
adjacent to the Macy's

Doris who is Italian, and is now in Chicago
but lived with Carlo in Florence for ten years!
So she is fluent in Italian and patiently gave me Italian lessons
and helped me pick out a new purse

and Bret a much needed new briefcase.

They also have a son named Adam and another named David.

Cleveland 2

In the Cleveland Institute of Art

these portholes are a clever display

The "Past" shows a photo of the what the museum used to look like,

The "Future" shows the future, of course,

but the "Today" is a window to the construction!

Another view of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame

Another view of the Great Lakes Science Center

Cleveland

This is the beginning of our trip:

First, we walked around downtown Cleveland

We saw these cute concrete plant holders.
A bus stop in the median on a busy street
The glass is to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame museum.
The round thing is part of the Great Lakes Science Center.

Downtown