Big cities are Zachary’s thing… He loves being around the huge buildings and life in the city. Although, I’ve been in some big cities (LA, Paris, Rome, Houston, Athens, etc…) I haven’t really been in a city that is filled with skyscraper after skyscraper like Chicago is… We dropped our car off in Hyde Park at a the University of Chicago (where we Couchsurfed- there will be a post on this soon), bought a 3-day public transportation pass, and headed into the city. I wasn’t extremely stoked about seeing all the buildings, but Zach kept pointing out all of the different buildings from the windows of the ‘L’. (Riding the ‘L’ is a cultural experience in itself). However, once we were in the actual city and I got off the train I was in love. Being beside these huge buildings, looking up and only seeing more building, was pretty awe-inspiring. We went to Millennium Park and walked around that area for a while, before walking through downtown to Navy Pier and then to the Magnificent Mile. This trip involved a lot of walking around the buildings and eating a lot of pizza. Zach took me to the end of the […]