On day 2 we donned our green (it was St. Patrick's Day) only to learn that Chi-Town celebrated the lucky leprechaun the previous Saturday night. Booo! We were kind of bummed about that- St. Paul celebrates St. Patty's day on March 17th- no matter the day it lands!
Anyway, on Wednesday we took a cab to the Museum of Science and Industry where we explored a German submarine among hours of exhibits and walked to Millennium Park before dinner to marvel at "the Bean".
We put some serious miles on our feet this week, we only drove (or took a cab) twice.
The night before Chris had woken up to the sound of a little girl laughing and it bugged him all day. After returning from dinner Chris picked the brains of the bartender, bellhop and head of security. He quickly discovered we were staying in haunted hotel! The barkeep sent us to talk to the bellhop, the bellhop shared us a few of his experience and then sent us to the head security guard. The security guard sized us up and kept his cards close to his chest at first. But Chris's experience and sincere interest must have won him over.
He nodded his head to our laughing little girl, she had been noted in their files thousands of times. (Thousands!) They keep track of all of the things guests report, but they don't get concerned about things until they get in the 100s or so.
The security guard, who was missing two fingers!, shared several stories, but my favorite is about the the time he assisted ghost hunters in analyzing that room. The first few rounds of setting up tapes, securing the room and the area resulted in all of the recorders being turned off. Finally, one tape caught foot steps approaching the recorder and a low raspy voice asking "what are you looking for?" Chills.
Pictures from day 2:
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