We had a good trip to Evanston a month ago. It was really cold and windy! (Yes I know Chicago is the windy city!) When we landed it really didn't even look like spring and I must admit it was a little disappointing. The tulips were JUST coming up and there were NO leaves on any of the trees yet. Not even little leaf buds... while in Texas we have full grown leaves! Sigh...
Picture of flowers just coming up. They sure were pretty!
Soon to be MBA student in front of Lake Michigan.
We were there for about 5 days but most of the time was spent at Christian's new student orientation. That was like 2 1/2 days, then Sunday which we spent going to our soon to be new ward and relaxing. Monday we found a place to live.It's called Castle Apartments and was built in the 1920's. Let's just say it has lots of vintage character! It had better for the $1300 a month price tag! Good news is that it has all wood floors and an updated kitchen including a dishwasher. Unfortunately the laundry room is down 3 floors and there's no elevator in this building. Looks like it will be fun moving in! It is only about 2 blocks to campus and 1/2 mile from the building that Christian's classes will be in!
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(I'm also still trying to wrap my head around the fact that there is no parking lot, only street parking, and parallel parking at that. I can't parallel park so this should get interesting really quick!)
Tuesday we did a little shopping and sightseeing before catching our flight back to Dallas.
Here's the Sears Tower. We went up on the observation deck 1353 feet up in the air.
View of Downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan. (The black building is the Hancock Tower.)
View of sculpture from the Sears Tower.
View of the same sculpture at street level. It looks like a little insect from way up high!
Did a little shopping along the magnificent mile. (Found this massive chocolate bar at the Hershey Store. I didn't buy it because as much as I love chocolate I don't know what I would do with a 5lb. bar of it!) Mostly we were just trying to stay inside as much as possible because it was 40 degrees and windy and all I had was a short sleeve shirt on underneath my jacket. Brrr!!
This is my favorite picture of a display outside Macy's for the Kitchen-Aid Stand mixer. I love the color striped background!We had some awesome deep dish pizza from Lou Malnati's Pizza. I can't wait to go back for more! I'll have to try to make my own too, it can't be that hard, right?
In other news, the house was listed for sale right after we got back, we had two showings the same day, and the next day received and accepted an offer, so we close on the house a week after we move. Perfect timing!
