Today the weather was (mostly) cooperative, and so Tim and I headed to Millennium and Grant Parks, to just walk around and enjoy both the weather and the pretty gardens. As usual, the trains were packed and people were annoying, but we made it in good time to the Bean. We didn't get too close because there were a ton of people around it. So we just kept walking through the park, enjoying the flowers and everything else that was there.
A small exhibit called "Sculpture from China" was in between the rows of trees, which was both interesting and a bit weird (My favorite was the giant red T-Rex, the weird one being a gold pig, eating a man, and another man's head being in the first man's body, trying to save him from being eaten by the pig). After we walked around the touristy part of Millennium Park, we crossed the street into Grant Park and walked through the gardens, stopping to look at a Monarch butterfly and a Red-winged blackbird who was squawking at us. It was pretty cool.
Then we crossed another street into the Green, where Barack Obama accepted the election win. Let me tell ya, that was a tiny, tiny little area. How they fit that many people into the place, is beyond me. It was kinda cool to be there though, because there weren't many tourists walking around and being kinda annoying, though we did see one or two Segway tours go through, which prompted us to sing this song.
Then we walked a bit further and saw a huge fountain, made famous in this TV Opener, and thought it was interesting and sort of funny. Once again we started singing that theme song and had quite a bit of fun. We wanted to buy ice cream but it was over $3, so we didn't. After that we decided to head home because it was getting rainy.
It was actually really good for us to spend that time together, especially because we haven't really seen each other much in the last few weeks due to very conflicting work schedules. It was very peaceful. Maybe we'll go somewhere else next week.
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