This day we took things pretty easy. We'd done a lot of stuff by this point and needed to rest. We went to a part of town known as Wicker Park/Bucktown where it's kinda like Newtown/St Peters. I found a great record store called Reckless Records where I bought 10 cd's and Esther picked up some new shoes a few shops up.
That night we went out for pizza pie! Pizza Uno's was the joint and we had this great 4 cheese with pesto and tomato pizza. It was huge and even though we shared one we couldn't finish it, and retired to an English pub to drink Belgian beers.
As we couldn't stay in our hostel for the Friday night, we decided to splash out and pay for a 5 star hotel room in the theatre district, downtown. They gave us a really nice room on the corner of two streets where down one was the famous Chicago Theatre and down the other was the Gehry designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion with the metro rolling along by in the foreground. Pretty awesome.
We dumped our stuff, grabbed some bikes and rode up and down the Lake Michigan shoreline. We ended up riding quite a way, including stopping off at the Navy Pier for shakes. Riding along was a great way to see a lot of the great architecture of Chicago in a short time as well as get a good look at Lake Michigan. The whole way I couldn't believe it was a freshwater lake after being so used to seeing saltwater oceans at home.
While riding we saw a sign for Lincoln Park Zoo, so we dropped the bikes off and checked it out. It's a free zoo in the middle of Lincoln Park and was surprisingly good, even though I felt the enclosure sizes weren't so big. They had quite a few large animals, especially large cats. They even had a polar bear which was pretty awesome. Unfortunately we were there at the end of the day and we ended up being kicked out at closing time.
Dinner consisted of some famous Chicago style hotdogs! I can't remember the name of the joint but even though it was pretty crazy inside with all the people running about, the food was really good and it was a good way to finish up in Chicago
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