apartment in the Loop. From there we went to the Millennium Park, on the
lakeshore, and had a look (a long one) at the amazing sculpture that Dave calls "The Bean,"
but which the sculptor called "Cloud Gate." It's wonderful how the city 
reflects in it, but eve more how 
people 
do 
. Next to it is a 
fountain with two faces which appear in it (and occasionally spray
water over the kids playing between them). We also admired the 
music pavillion 
and the way it sat in the middle of everything 
(we don't know why that building's leaning -- perhaps it's fallen over since we were there). We walked across the Frank Gehry 
bridge over Columbus Drive, and through the 
wonderful gardens 
rather like a prairie, in parts, and more 
cultivated 
in others. Finally we walked out Navy 
Pier, where a four-master 
was just on its way out into the lake, setting 
its sails as it went. There was lots more, but that's all
we got pictures of (and three of those are lifted from other sites).