Thursday was a beautiful sunny day. We did a walk to Millennium Park, saw the Bean and enjoyed the day. We had lunch at a pizza place recommended to us. Chicago is famous for pizza. This pizza was meh. Oh, well, maybe another time.
We enjoyed part of the Riverwalk and some of the architecture Chicago is famous for. One was Marina City from the early 1960s. It was one of the first examples of mixed use development. I remember studying it in school. I never liked the style from the photos I saw. And now, seeing it first hand in person? I still don’t like it.
However, on our walk long the river, we did see the FirstLady dock where we would be doing the Sunday Architecture River Tour. There are a lot of other famous buildings to see in Chicago.
As I mentioned, we got tickets to Riverdance 30. This was in large part because we had seen the original Riverdance back in the mid 1990s. So impressive. We thought, “why not?” to see it again.
We had dinner at The Dearborn directly across from our hotel just before the show. I had an excellent burger and Brenda had their fish and chips. Her review of them was that they were the best fish and chips she had had in her life.
The play was also just a couple of blocks away in the Cadillac Palace Theater in the French Baroque style from 1926. Amazing. And the performance was just about as good as the original.
