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Doing The Chicago Christmas Things, Part 2

12/22/2022

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​DOING THE CHICAGO CHRISTMAS THINGS, PART 2

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...Continued from yesterday:
     
​The following morning, Monday morning, our daughter Claire rode a Divvy bike the five miles from her house to our hotel, Divvy being the Chicago bike-sharing system whereby one can one can pick up a bike at one bike station and return it to another, there being Divvy bike stations all over the city.
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       After Claire met us at our hotel we walked several blocks through downtown Chicago,
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...to a cute little eatery on Lake Shore Drive called Kanela Breakfast Club,
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...where Tom and I had some very good bacon and eggs,
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...and Claire had a veggie omelet,
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...and some interesting-looking veggie bacon, which she also very proclaimed very good good.
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       After breakfast we walked to Michigan Avenue,
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...across the Chicago river,
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...then we walked through town,
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...to the Christkindlmarket, a German Christmas market held annually in Daley Plaza,
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...which was quite crowded even at 11:30 am on a Monday morning.
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      After we'd made the rounds of the Christkindlmarket we walked across the street to Macy's, which was festively decked out  for the holidays, inside and out.
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      From Macy's we walked to the Blue Line train,
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...which we rode back to Claire's stop, from which we walked to her house.
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      That evening we drove back downtown,
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...to my favorite of all favorite Chicago pizza places, Pizano's,.
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...where the deep dish, thin crust Chicago-style pizza was a sublime as ever.
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      Then for Tom and me it was back to the Aloft,
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...and our cute but creepy little traveling robot friend.
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     The following morning, Tuesday morning, Claire drove over to the Aloft and picked us up.
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      She then drove us back to her neighborhood where we had breakfast at another of our favorite Chicago breakfast spots, the Cozy Corner,
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...which is, in fact, a very cozy corner,
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...with retro decor,
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...and great food.
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     After breakfast we ran errands,
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     We spent the rest of the day at Claire's house with the kitties..
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      When dinner time rolled around we went to a nearby burger place called Small Cheval,
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...for some yummy take-out.
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      The next morning, Wednesday, December 14,  at 5:30 am, Tom and I were out in the rain at the bus stop around the corner from our hotel,
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...(though fortunately the bus stop offered a shelter),
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...and soon were on our way to the Blue Line train stop where we caught the train to O'Hare.
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    A few hours later we were back home in Columbus.
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