Holiday ‘firsts’ - also known as ‘Eh? What’s that?’
Part of the joy and fun of travelling and going on holiday is trying things for the first time. Don't all laugh at once, but this is my list of firsts from my wonderful 3-week holiday - holiday, what holiday, you ask? Patience, more posts to come. :-)
- catching the Blue Line train from O’Hare airport into Chicago
- walking through Millennium Park at night, seeing the fountain all lit up
- ETA: people 'stepping'
my first trip on the El
trying to stay on the right-hand side of the footpath / escalator!
- orange-flavoured coffee
ETA: corset in the flesh, as it were ;-)
- catching a Chicago bus
- going to the Taste of Chicago food festival
- root beer
- root beer floats
- Dr Pepper
- Dorritos
- yoghurt in a tube
- mojitos 20-storeys up
- being interviewed on the radio
- a Dunkin Donuts’ donut + coffee
- authentic Chicago deep-dish pizza
- 3 July fireworks in Chicago, complete with live orchestra and oh, about 1 million people in the same place at the same time!
- a real Chicago hot-dog (wait, I don’t think I stopped at 1. Burp)
- raspberry beer
walking along Chicago's swanky Michigan Avenue
Chicago's Neo club
- going to Indiana
ETA: going to Michigan
- being on a floating casino in Indiana
- blueberry-picking
- seeing the famous Mount Baldy
- dipping my toes in Lake Michigan
- making and eating S’mores
- eating Graham crackers for the first time
- seeing real fireflies
- drive-through ATMs
- Utah desert
- fry sauce
squeaky cheese
Milk Duds
Junior Mints
- being in Banana Republic + The Gap shops
- seeing Salt Lake’s Temple Square
- Italian soda
- real waffles
ETA: Utah Shakespeare Festival
ETA: Twinkies, Ho-Hos (?), Ding-dongs
Harry Potter: the Order of the Phoenix
Pirates of the Carribean 3
- Archer’s National Park
gothic_rebecca, have I missed anything from our fortnight together?
- catching the Blue Line train from O’Hare airport into Chicago
- walking through Millennium Park at night, seeing the fountain all lit up
- ETA: people 'stepping'
my first trip on the El
trying to stay on the right-hand side of the footpath / escalator!
- orange-flavoured coffee
ETA: corset in the flesh, as it were ;-)
- catching a Chicago bus
- going to the Taste of Chicago food festival
- root beer
- root beer floats
- Dr Pepper
- Dorritos
- yoghurt in a tube
- mojitos 20-storeys up
- being interviewed on the radio
- a Dunkin Donuts’ donut + coffee
- authentic Chicago deep-dish pizza
- 3 July fireworks in Chicago, complete with live orchestra and oh, about 1 million people in the same place at the same time!
- a real Chicago hot-dog (wait, I don’t think I stopped at 1. Burp)
- raspberry beer
walking along Chicago's swanky Michigan Avenue
Chicago's Neo club
- going to Indiana
ETA: going to Michigan
- being on a floating casino in Indiana
- blueberry-picking
- seeing the famous Mount Baldy
- dipping my toes in Lake Michigan
- making and eating S’mores
- eating Graham crackers for the first time
- seeing real fireflies
- drive-through ATMs
- Utah desert
- fry sauce
squeaky cheese
Milk Duds
Junior Mints
- being in Banana Republic + The Gap shops
- seeing Salt Lake’s Temple Square
- Italian soda
- real waffles
ETA: Utah Shakespeare Festival
ETA: Twinkies, Ho-Hos (?), Ding-dongs
Harry Potter: the Order of the Phoenix
Pirates of the Carribean 3
- Archer’s National Park
gothic_rebecca, have I missed anything from our fortnight together?