Our trip to Chicago (part 1)

Tuesday morning was a really sad day for all of us, because it was our last morning with our hostfamilies. Our bus left at 7am- at least that was the plan, but saying "Goodbye" to them was harder, than it seemed at first and so it was very sad for all of us, in St. Ansgar as well as in Charles City. At least we will see them again in summer...
After that we had another 8 hours of bus driving before we arrived in Chicago, Illinois. We checked in  at our hotel for the next days, the "Comfort Suites Chicago" and brought in our lugage, we drove downtown to Willis Tower, Chicago`s highest building. It took us 60 seconds to get to the top, were we took some amazing photos of Chicago`s  skyline. We also had the opportunity to walk on a glassfloor hundreds of meters above the ground and to take some more photos.
Back at our hotel we bought ourselves food for the next day, because we had a lot to do:
First we went on a tour through chicagos old town and learned about the German`s history in Chicago. We also visited a church that was built by german immigrants and looked like a european church.
Then we visited  the Chicago Art Institute,  which had many interesting pieces like a room on medival armor. It was really big but a tour gave us an overview of the most interesting pieces. Next to the Art Intstitute there was Millenium Park with sights like "The Bean" and  a great view on the skyline.
The last location we visited was Navy Peer, a place named after its use in the past, which nowadays serves as home for a little Ferris wheel, a few shops and the Shakespear Theater, our next target:
At 7pm we visited a performance of shakespears "The taming  of the shrew", set in the 1990s wemon rights protests ( suffrage movement). It lasted about 3 hours, but it was very entertaining, so we were happy to visit it.
So the first two days in Chicago passed by in next to no time-At least we felt so!