the dawn of my vacation

tomorrow at 17:35 pm my plane will bring me back home, so this is my last post from chicago.
i got plenty more pics and videos, so don't think I'll finish this blog, it's just the last post right out of the town.

on sunday we didn't have any plans what to do, so we went to lincoln park to hang around; there we found the Lincoln Park Zoo, where you don't have to pay anything to get in, so we thought 'cool' and went through this zoo to realize, it's just a horrible place...
animals like Giraffes are held in a small room of about 5x10 metres, bears were behaving like they where total autistic, it was just completely insane!
qite a bad place, so we just left without seeing the rest.

The next yay we met Boris and Viola, friends of my sister who live in Idaho and spent some days in chicago to visit boris' parents; so they know the city pretty good and drove us to the lake michigan and told us a bit about the city.
Then they invited us to a Barbecue at their parents place, which was pretty cool, as they got tons to eat and a really impressive house.
in the evening they took us to a little Jazz Club (Green Mill) which is said to be
one of Al Capone's former favorite Clubs;
we saw a really great concert of patricia barber there but after a while we got pretty tired (not because of her but of the exhausting day) so we went home.

On Tuesday we went to the Chicago Art Institute where you can find an truely impressive collection of artists like Monet, Picasso, munch, pollock, el greco and many more, a quite nice little collection of photography and some historical art treasures like old japanese sculptures or egyptian stuff; sadly this place was so horrible mixed up, it was damn hard to find anything

afterwards we met Boris and Viola in Millenium Park, a pretty fun place they created -yeah right- at the millenium,
they got two big cuboids with moving faces there, shooting water fountains out of there mouth....not too easy to describe but really fun to watch the kids playing in the water there.
they also got a really big mirroring sculpture that's somehow a mathematical form, looking like a bean.
it's a pretty cool object because when you go through it, you get a weird psychedelic view in a mirrored chaos.

while waiting for my sister there, it suddenly began extremely hard to rain so we had to escape to the toilets waiting there till it ends;
after that didn't took too long, boris guided us through some of the architectural highlights of Downtown.

in the evening my sister and i went to a little club to watch some kind of a experimental modern jazz concert, starring the guitarist of Tortoise, a well known american instrumental band; it was quite nice of course, but like everytime when we had a exhausing day like this we were too tired to stay for too long.

next time I'll post from Vienna, so I thank you all for observing my vacation.
the total picture outpost is expected to happen during the next 14 days so stay tuned!