Greetings!
First up, I have some leftover coupons for Amazing Grass to share with you! If you use the code HLS10 you will receive 25% off your entire order of Amazing Grass Products!!! The offer is only good while quantities last and expires at the end of August. For those of you who were asking, my favourite Amazing Grass products are the Chocolate Superfood and Chocolate Amazing Meal Powders. Yum. :)
Yesterday Eric and I were exploring the city of Chicago for 11 hours and we got home late once again. We are having such a blast here. There are lots of things for tourists to do.
We had lunch at the Corner Bakery Cafe:
I had the Asian salad with edamame. It was quite good!
Along with an iced Mighty Leaf Bombay Chai tea.
After lunch, we hit the road to explore the city! No plans, no commitments, no schedules. Just good times. When we travel we prefer to do things by the seat of our pants and explore by foot. We made our way to the Water and Air show and it was packed!
Beach:
There were thousands of people all over the lakeshore area for the air show.
I saw Vince Vaughn in a parachute (or so I hear!) ;)
We each had a Run Glo Bar for fuel:
After that we were off to explore more of the city.
Then it was time for lunch #2 at Argo Cafe!
I enjoyed the Garden Lentil salad and Eric had the Chicken Panini.
The lentil salad was delish!!!
I want to try to recreate this at home. :)
I also had the Sangria Tea which was awesome and had chunks of fruit in it!
After lunch #2, we decided to go to the skydeck to see views of the city.
When we got to the Skydeck we were herded like cattle for about 1 hour and 45 minutes! It was busy, busy, busy. Had we known it would eat up so much time we wouldn’t have gone.
Elevator shot:
Finally after about 1 hour 20 minutes we got to the top. The views were great.
We couldn’t get over how flat Chicago is. It sure has made my runs a lot easier this week.
Oh, damn he glows! ;)
Photographer fail. ;)
Glass floor:
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Eric said he wanted to get a deep dish pizza while we were here so we headed to Pizza Unos. The wait was about 1-1.5 hours, so we decided to go back during the week when it would be less busy. We decided on California Pizza Kitchen for our immediate pizza fix.
I asked the server if it was possible to have a fully vegan pizza and he said no because the crust had egg in it. Then he said he would ask the chef and the chef came up with a solution for a vegan pizza!
Apparently their thin crust doesn’t have egg, but their regular crust does, so thin crust it was. I wanted thin crust anyways!
I asked them to pile on the veggies and use extra sauce. I was so impressed. I ate approximately 89.5% of the pizza. ;) I also had a beer that I drank much too fast and concluded I was dehydrated!
Eric got his love- the BBQ chicken:
Happy customers.
After dinner, we walked over to Navy Pier for the evening architecture cruise.
It was so gorgeous at night and so relaxing!
We both got a beer. :)
Fun pictures ensued. It was also fun learning about the history of all the buildings and the city itself.
We figure we walked a good 8-10 miles yesterday alone. We finally got home around 11:45pm and crashed on the bed. :) We are about to head out for another fun day. I will most likely post tonight, so I will see you then! Have a great start to your week.
I know this comment is a bit out of place, but I just noticed your TJ’s sunflower seed butter.
I don’t think there are any TJ’s in Canada yet, but I know that at least some of their nut butters are produced in Canada, and are the same as those available at Bulk Barn. If you love this sunflower seed butter so much, it may be worth a try to see if it is indeed the same.
I, personally, love Bulk Barn’s sunflower seed butter. They also have my favourite peanut butter there (organic natural, with sea salt), which happens to be the same as TJ’s organic natural.
Have fun during your remaining stay in the windy city!
My hands went numb looking at that glass heights shot. So scary. I would kill for another one of those ice tea sangrias. Awesome to meet you this weekend. You’re just as sweet as we imagined.
So great meeting you (albeit briefly) at Karyn’s! If you’re going to go for deep dish, I recommend Giordano’s over Pizzeria Uno- it’s the best! Have fun exploring our city! :)
Omg omg omg!! My mom and I were just talking about that glass box the other day!! I would FREAK out..the only way I think I could handle it would be to lay down with half my body in the box and half in the building. Dang girl, you’re brave!!
Oh my – what a wonderful adventure you have had today! Mr BBB and I are heading on a quick holiday this weekend and I cant wait! I love exploring new towns / cities!
Sangria tea?!?! Sounds amazing! I love your photos by the way. Did you use a tripod?
Yay for living it up in Chicago!!! I love CPK!!!
I want to recreate the lentil salad also, sounds good.
Omigosh, I never realized how gorgeous of a city Chicago was until now. It’s so cool. The architecture is very modern!
I hope you recreate the lentil salad as well!!! I wish we had a place like that…..all the yummy food where I live!!!
Your pictures are FANTASTIC, especially the night shots. Looks like you guys are having fun!
oooh, those glass floors high up give me vertigo, LOL! Just looking at the pick! :) I would LOVE to try some of your bars, and give some away on my blog for others to try. They look delicious! It looks like Chicago was a lot of fun. The architecture is astounding!
Love the beautiful pictures! Glad you got to hang out w/ my friend Gina.
Thank you for sharing your tour of Chicago! It looks amazing! I am running the Chicago Marathon in October and we are going to spend the 2 days before touring the city, so it is nice getting some ideas of what we should do, and restaurants we should eat at! (I am forcing my hubby + non-veg friends to a vegetarian restaurant!) Can’t wait to see more pics of your travels!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsBPAtU-uc&feature=player_embedded
Apparently it was Vince! :)
That glass thing looks way too scary for me. No thank you! And I really want a corner bakery and coffee shop. Especially one that serves salad like the one in your pic!
I saw shots of the architecture cruise during the day via Healthy Tipping Point, and your evening pictures are beautiful! I’m not sure which I like better!
That sangria tea looks delicious.
Hey Angela! Isn’t Chicago fabulous? Random question – I heart your uber cute black top? Where did you get it? I need to go shopping. : )