Today's adventure - Navy Pier & Chinatown!
It started out a little overcast, but turned into another lovely day overall. Sunny and 81, eventually. We spent some time at Navy Pier - I know what your thinking - tourist trap. True, it is, but it is also a beautiful place to hang on a sunny day. Peaceful and homey, provided there aren't allot of kids around. You get a great view of the city, fresh air, sunshine, a lovely walk and tons of entertainment and concessions - provided you can handle the exorbitant costs. If you go, grab a snack and walk all the way to the end of the pier. Watch the boats, watch the gulls and enjoy the relative peace of the lakeshore. Also, bring enough $$$$$ for the Mackinac Island Fudge and We're Completely Nuts! The best mashuga nuts ever, and fudge that will make you willing to shoot insulin the rest of your life, just for a taste. Oh, and don't forget to soak up some culture. Visit the Smith Museum of Stained Glass, it is amazing.
Then onto Chinatown, our kind of town! Kitchy cool and amazing food at every corner. If it is your first time there, plan on spending the entire day and eating till you bust. If you are a veteran, you can do it in a few hours and still eat till you bust. So much crap, so little time. Each store chock full of fabulous crap or frightening dried goods OR - even worse - LIVE THINGS! Ha Ha! It is amazing, this microcosm of another culture in our own backyard. We have our favorite haunts, the ones with the best crap or best food. The most amazing food, by the way, is at WON KOW. It is one of the oldest restaurants in Chinatown and for good reason. NEVER have we had a disappointing meal there. Our faves this trip - Dim Sum! WOW! The BBQ Pork and the Shrimp, Meat, Peanut - to die for. (They use the phrase 'meat' as a catch all for God only what wasn't fast enough to get away.) Also, new this year, but just as fabulous, The Vietnamese Noodle Shop. Po - Wonderful!
Side Note - When shopping for clothes in Chinatown, remember that they base the sizes on the average Asian woman's' frame, not a real human size. Example, I bought the lovely frock above at one of our favorite crap shops. Normally I wear an XS - S, depending. In Chinatown, my Godzilla like proportions render me an XL! XL! They must think I am a Sasquatch, a big red and white Sasquatch.
Side Note Duo - dug out my pedometer this morning and wore it all day. Total of 7.6 miles today. Thay may have burned off one egg roll, or three bites of fudge.
