Buses and Trains
I like commuting. From our house, it's a 10 minute bus ride to Bryn Mawr station (with that cute little Dunkin Donuts stand), plus a 30 minute train ride to downtown Chicago. Chicago has a lot of train lines, but I take the red line, which services North Chicago, going all the way up to Evanston. It's better to commute to downtown Chicago, because parking is expensive downtown.
When I go downtown, I visit the library most of the time. It's the most awesome library I've ever seen, with 10 floors of books, plus a DVD collection I could borrow for free!
I've been to most of the tourist attractions with Mom already during my first month here. At the top of the John Hancock tower (2nd tallest building in Chicago), you could see everything for miles. Just goes to show you how vast and flat Chicago is. On clear days, you could see all the way up to Wisconsin up North, or Indiana down Southeast.
My favorite place is Millenium Park, by the lake. I keep imagining Lake Michigan to be a sea, because it's just so vast. It's great to sometimes think that on the other of it is just the Philippines, so near yet so far.
The Museum campus by the lake is great as well. I love the Field Museum with its collection of dinosaur fossils. For the first time, I am seeing real dinosaur fossils! The Shedd Aquarium is equally nice, with the whole basement floor dedicated solely to a Philippine coral reefs exhibit, which is awesome. The Adler Planetarium is small, but its architecture is admirable. Actually, much of Chicago architecture is great. This city of broad shoulders, broad prairies, broad promises.
When I go downtown, I visit the library most of the time. It's the most awesome library I've ever seen, with 10 floors of books, plus a DVD collection I could borrow for free!
I've been to most of the tourist attractions with Mom already during my first month here. At the top of the John Hancock tower (2nd tallest building in Chicago), you could see everything for miles. Just goes to show you how vast and flat Chicago is. On clear days, you could see all the way up to Wisconsin up North, or Indiana down Southeast.
My favorite place is Millenium Park, by the lake. I keep imagining Lake Michigan to be a sea, because it's just so vast. It's great to sometimes think that on the other of it is just the Philippines, so near yet so far.
The Museum campus by the lake is great as well. I love the Field Museum with its collection of dinosaur fossils. For the first time, I am seeing real dinosaur fossils! The Shedd Aquarium is equally nice, with the whole basement floor dedicated solely to a Philippine coral reefs exhibit, which is awesome. The Adler Planetarium is small, but its architecture is admirable. Actually, much of Chicago architecture is great. This city of broad shoulders, broad prairies, broad promises.