Chicago March

Within the first couple weeks of us being in Chicago we overheard rumors of some riot that was to be taking place in downtown for NATO and Occupy Chicago and some other things...Obviously it wasn't very organized. Regardless, the salesman and our boss, Jared, got together and decided they wanted to check it out..and THEN they decided that they, too, wanted to march. But not for any of those causes.

We took the train into Chicago which was really awesome and I was surprised how exactly it matched the train in the movie Source Code, which is really good by the way you should see it if you haven't. Anyway, it took us about an hour to get in to the city from where we live due to all the stops we made, etc, and I loved watching the great skyscrapers loom closer and closer as we came up to the city.  It really is quite an impressive city.

I don't think I could ever LIVE in a big city, but I did enjoy looking at everything as we walked to the area where the "march" was going to happen- found only by following fellow marchers with signs as well.

Since we didn't want to march for the causes already present, Carson decided we'd march for Boise State...hence the BSU Jersey :)

So many cool sights!

I loved the opera house cement work outside. So cool. made me really want to go see one of the operas :)

This is what Carson's sign said..."Coach Pete 4 President." Love the "tunnel" behind him. 

Sunshine! 

This looked like Wayne tower to me from Batman...wish I could have seen it closer.

The Bean! Courtesy of AT&T, I believe. It lived up to all my expectations. Really quite neat. I liked how they kept it clean, too, so the reflections were really clear.

Zickgrafs at the Bean! Cool shot of the city via the reflection as well

What the inside of the Bean looked like. Reflections all over the place! Try to find me :)

We eventually found the crowd that we'd been looking for..and boy it was CRAZY. So many random people coming together to protest who KNOWS what. Unorganized, dressed like clowns (which is ironic because they really are clowns...bunch of fools most of them) marching along protesting....escorted by police dragged there from pretty much everywhere in the city.  All very interesting to me

The men in black! Making sure the "peaceful protest" remained so. I thought this was really cool. 

the boys and their signs. All of which brought smiles to the faces of all policeman, stand-by's, etc. I'm sure it made some of the protesters mad, but most everyone else there thought we were the greatest. 

This guy was pretty cool. He goes to Notre Dame and even he said BSU should have made it to several Championship Bowl games....Which made Carson, especially, very happy since he was protesting the unfairness of it all. 

I found this interesting- A peace sign in the midst of all these people that were disturbing the peace of the city.  

We were lucky enough to, at one point, get close to a group of the clowns which, at random, would fall to the ground for a demonstration chanting some strange things. I never could quite understand them. but they were fun to watch!

Jared even got an interview with some news channel for his sign.  I'm tellin ya people loved us

Standing in front of "The Barrier" once we left the march. These guys looked awesome. Not something I would do again, but it was an adventure to say the least and I did get to see a lot of the city! Next time we go it will definitely be more "touristy." There's a lot I'd like to see :) We finished the day stopping at a Jamba Juice to wash our hands of the creep that might have rubbed off from others marching, and got a refreshing smoothie to satisfy our hunger/thirst.