Chicago With Guests, Part II: Thanksgiving Week

The time passes so fast it seems three weeks since our last post. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving week with Parentis and Nänni visiting and Chicago presented itself from its best sides again. When all of the three were up before seven the next morning after their landing, the start to the first walk was very early, too. This turned out to be a good thing, though, since passing the Millennium Park only took us an hour and a half.

This is of course because taking photographs runs in the family. Very strongly. Very.
I am sure you will have to see dozens of photos of the famous Egg, Bean or, officially, the Cloud Gate, but they are just so cool.
This one is especially to Riin - taken in the reading room of the Chicago`s Visitors` Centre, former City Library. The cafe there became Parentis` favorite and they often went there for maps and leaflets for Daddy and American coffee for Mami and lunch and it was quiet and nice.

Quiet is not something you can say about the rest of the Thanksgiving Chicago. The Magnificent Mile had just started the Christmas season with the Lights Festival and the streets look very cute now with millions of lights lit on the fences and trees along the street.

Shopping or, in the case below - finding new friends, took us another half a day until we...

...went to take a little break at the bar in the Hancock Building. The view is the best there and the three "little" hamburgers, too, that you get for A snack.
The next days were full of entertainment as well. You have already heard about the Aquarium. Then there was the girls day that ended late in the evening with Nänni and me getting a spontaneous manicure in the Old Town. The place looked less fancy than some in its neighborhood but therefore just like in movies, and we were the only customers, and there was a very cool nail fan that fully justified the 12 dollar treatment.
The boys, too, had their day and went to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Among the hundreds of school kids to spend their few Thanksgiving week school days at the city`s museums those two must have made an impression, and seemed to have enjoyed at least as much as the little boys did.
On Thanksgiving evening we were kindly invited to dinner hosted by the Dean of the Law School.
Not only was the food totally self cooked by some of the Faculty`s staff members but it was really so very delicious. Everything we had only read about so far was there - the turkey, the stuffing, the gravy, the pumpkin pie, the sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Well, of the latter I had never heard before but it was yummy, too.
Julietta said Thanksgiving is her favorite festival because it is not about receiving but about giving. And as she so nicely put it that evening - we have a lot to give thanks to.