The Windy City
CHICAAAAGO, EYE EL!
I arrived at 7pm on Sunday night, caught an authentic cab ride into the city, complete with Pakistani cabby that didn't understand jack! I then met another Jozi colleague for dinner. He's based in Houston, Texas (where I was supposed to go originally). Quite strange, we've come half way round the world to meet for dinner!
Grafted 'til late today, then went for a walk downtown. If I thought Denver was cool, Chicago is just tha shit! This place is awesome with a capital "AWE". It's like Jozi, just on steroids, crack and ecs. Actually, JHB doesn't come close! And such highrise buildings, you can hardly see the sky, just skyscrapers all the way around. The Sears Tower is the tallest building in North America, I think. I work across the road from it. I'll try get pics of it tomorrow.
The night life is huge, the streets being littered with curbside restaurants and pubs. And fancy ones too.
And such shopping - tons of ladies of leisure (desparate housewives) with too much cash, and three boutique shopping bags in each hand. Prada, Vuitton, Polo, Ralph Lauren... they're all here!
Some of the tall ones - the mielie looking buildings are parking garages from the ground to about a quarter way up!
The John Hancock building (middle - ninety something floors) and the fountain at its entrance.
Just to make the girls jealous (that's if I have any girls that read this stuff). Louis Vuitton. Stylish! The church looking building is the water board or something. PREACH!
Inside one of the malls, a glass elevator like no other. It's goes up and down seven stories flippen quickly. Coming down, I almost had one of those "zero gravity" moments like when Sierra Lima Romeo took us for that spin that made me chunda!
I arrived at 7pm on Sunday night, caught an authentic cab ride into the city, complete with Pakistani cabby that didn't understand jack! I then met another Jozi colleague for dinner. He's based in Houston, Texas (where I was supposed to go originally). Quite strange, we've come half way round the world to meet for dinner!
Grafted 'til late today, then went for a walk downtown. If I thought Denver was cool, Chicago is just tha shit! This place is awesome with a capital "AWE". It's like Jozi, just on steroids, crack and ecs. Actually, JHB doesn't come close! And such highrise buildings, you can hardly see the sky, just skyscrapers all the way around. The Sears Tower is the tallest building in North America, I think. I work across the road from it. I'll try get pics of it tomorrow.
The night life is huge, the streets being littered with curbside restaurants and pubs. And fancy ones too.
And such shopping - tons of ladies of leisure (desparate housewives) with too much cash, and three boutique shopping bags in each hand. Prada, Vuitton, Polo, Ralph Lauren... they're all here!
Some of the tall ones - the mielie looking buildings are parking garages from the ground to about a quarter way up!
The John Hancock building (middle - ninety something floors) and the fountain at its entrance.
Just to make the girls jealous (that's if I have any girls that read this stuff). Louis Vuitton. Stylish! The church looking building is the water board or something. PREACH!
Inside one of the malls, a glass elevator like no other. It's goes up and down seven stories flippen quickly. Coming down, I almost had one of those "zero gravity" moments like when Sierra Lima Romeo took us for that spin that made me chunda!
posted by Dari at Monday, August 29, 2005
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