My second day in Chicago was on Thanksgiving Day. Almost everything was closed, except McDonald’s; therefore we decided to walk through Chicago's downtown.
My wife and I started our tour visiting Millennium Park. Our first picture was in front of a wall made of video screen bricks, which was showing us two faces. The name of this place is Crown Fountain. Near this place we saw an ice skating rink and from this skating rink it was possible to see the most famous sculpture at this park, the Bean!
As did a million other people who visited and will visit Millennium Park, we took some pictures in the Bean. It's really a unique sculpture to appreciate.
After that, we passed through a garden, which was looking like a dead garden because in November it is fall in the USA and all of the landscape does not look good.
We were a little disappointed with the fountain because it was without water; again the reason was the fall season. I realized that we need to come back there during the spring or the summer to fully enjoy the beautiful park.
We walked on the edge of the lake, from the fountain to the Navy Pier. It was a long and cold walk because the temperature was not too cold, but we were facing a lot of wind.
Everything at the pier was closed because of the holiday. Thus, we decided to walk again up to Michigan Avenue or the Majestic Mile. Our target was a restaurant that we could have lunch at, because it was almost 03:00 PM and we hadn’t had lunch yet.
We found an open restaurant near Michigan Avenue that was TGI Friday's, but at that time and considering the options that we had, they had the best food and the best restaurant in town!
After the lunch, we came back to our walking journey, and we passed through Michigan Avenue and came back to the hotel.
During the night, we had our Thanksgiving dinner at the famous American restaurant, MacDonald’s! (it was the only one open that night). It was less than one block from the hotel.
I'll tell more about day 3 and 4 in the next posts.....
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