The flying superkid, bubble tea, and how to (almost) miss a train twice

Vi er stadigt I Chicago og vi stornyder det. Man hører sjældent mere til Chicago end hvor meget de skyder på hinanden derinde, men hold op hvor er det en fed by.

Søndag var planen at tage til Lincoln Zoo – den skulle nemlig både være god OG gratis (#FerieMedFamilienFattigrøv). Der var pænt langt at gå fra togstationen, så vi testede de lokale busser og hoppede af, da vi syntes vi var tæt nok på og havnede derfor midt I en lokal Hot Dog festival, hvor man kunne købe – ta daaaah – hot dogs. Men kun hvis man først vekslede til Dog Dollars. Man kunne også blive foreviget som en pølse, men køen var faktisk ret lang, så det er desværre ikke en Frikke der her ligger lunt og godt.

We are still in Chicago and we really enjoy it. Most of what we have heard of Chicago has related to how much they shoot at each other, but it is really a cool city.
 

The plan for Sunday was to go to the Lincoln Zoo - it should be both a nice place AND free (#VacationWithoutMoney). It was quite a long walk from the train station, so we got to test the local bus system, got off when we thought we were close enough,  and ended tight in the middle in a local Hot Dog festival where you could buy - ta daaaaah - hot dogs. But only if you purchased Dog Dollars. One could also be photographed as a sausage but the queue was actually pretty long, so unfortunately it is not a Frikke nestled below:

 

Inden vi nåede til Zoo måtte jeg dog holde et løfte til Teresa. Hun har været helt vild for at prøve bubble tea, og der skulle ligge en lille biks en god gåtur nord for Lincoln Zoo, hvor man ville kunne prøve den slags. Som  bonus kom vi gennem et virkeligt hyggeligt boligkvarter med små butikker og rækkehuse, men butikken vi havde kig på var desværre lukket. Af ren og skær stædighed gik vi et stykke længere, det kunne jo være at adressen var forkert, men uden held. Heldigvis kom vi forbi en anden butik hvor de havde rigtig bubble tea – dvs te og ikke smoothie med “bubbles” i. Teresa valgte popping bubbles, der er små gel perler med flydende indre I forskellige frugt smage, og det var heldigvis en stor success:

Before we reached the zoo, however, I had to keep a promise to Teresa. She has been very excited to sample bubble tea, and there should be a small place for that a good walk north of Lincoln Zoo. As a bonus we walked through a really nice residential area with small shops and houses. Yet the store did not exist anymore, but as Teresa is really persistent we kept walking. Fortunately, we passed another store where they did have bubble tea – and actually it was tea and not just smoothies with "bubbles". Teresa chose the popping kind of bubbles which is small gel beads with liquid inside In various fruit flavors, and luckily it was a great success :

Zoo var også en success. Primært pga gorilla ungerne. Der var et par stykker der var I seriøst fjollehumør og drejede rundt om sig selv og slog på ruderne lige foran alle børne næserne, inden de jagtede hinanden rundt med munden fuld af hø. Gorilla mor så pænt smadret ud og prøvede at finde et sted at få en lur I fred og ro, men det var ikke ligefrem let.

  

Zoo was also a success. Primarily due to gorilla toddlers. There were a few that were seriously fooling around and started spinning and beat on the windows right in front of the children, then they chased each other around with their mouths full of dry grass. The poor gorilla Mum was very tired and tried to find a place to get a nap in peace and quiet, but it was not exactly easy.

Da det var søndag gik der kun tog tilbage hver anden time, og det så ud til at trække op til regn. Vi besluttede derfor at prøve at nå det tidlige tog, men vi gik lige akkurat glip af en bus, og var nødt til at vente på den næste, der sneglede sig gennem The Magnificent Mile så langsomt at vi godt kunne droppe at nå til stationen I tide. I stedet blev vi og spiste lækker  aftensmad lige midt I det hele udenfor med udsigt The Trump tower på den ene side og togene gennem gaderne på den anden side. Åh hvor har jeg savnet storby stemming på den måde. Det var simpelthen så hyggeligt og vores mad var forsinket på den gode måde, hvor man bare kan sidde og slappe af I sine trætte ben. Knap så spændende var det at opdage hvor langt, der egentlig stadigt var ned til stationen 20 minutter før det næste tog kørte……. Men vi nåede det lige akkurat. 

Since it was Sunday there was only a train gong back every two hours, and it since it started to get rainy we decided to test to try and catch an early train, but we just missed the bus, and had to wait for the next one. It turned out to be really slow and seemed to inch ever so slowly through The Magnificent Mile that we fairly early on realized that we were not going to make it to the station in time. Instead we got off and had delicious dinner right in the middle of Chicago overlooking The Trump tower on the one side and the trains in the streets on the other side. Oh how I've missed that big city feeling. It was such a nice dinner and our food was late in a good way, where you get to just sit and relax the tired legs. It was less nice to discover how far, we had to walk to get to the station in only 20 minutes ....... But we made it.

dinner with a view

I dag (mandag) har det været tid til indfrielsen af Teresas fødselsdags gave – indoor skydiving. Nørj hvor har hun glædet sig. Selve flyvetiden er eet minut ad gangen men hertil skal lægges instruktionstid og påklædning mm. Her er hun I gang og hun var een af de seje – ja hun var så. Se selv bevis her:  http://youtu.be/pbQ7Ld-Db9U

Today (Monday),the time had come to redeem Teresa's birthday gift - indoor skydiving. Oh my was she excited? The flight time was only 2x one minute but on top of this came instructions and clothing etc. Here she is http://youtu.be/pbQ7Ld-Db9U– and she was one of the cool kids. Just saying…

 

Eftermiddagen blev tilbragt I et lille japansk shopping center med et supermarked, en food court, en boghandel og en DVD butik. Slet ikke I nærheden af Japantown I San Francisco, men maden var simpelthen så lækker og vi åd til vi nærmest ikke kunne rokke med ørerne.  Bagefter gik vi amok I supermarkedet og købte stort ind af madpakke dims (inklusiv en bog om bentobokse med opskrifter på engelsk) så jeg tror godt jeg kan forudsige at aftenen inden første skoledag kommer til at foregå I køkkenet for Teresa og mig :-)

The afternoon was spent in a small Japanese shopping center with a supermarket, a food court, a bookstore, and a DVD store. Not anywhere close to the size of Japantown in San Francisco, but the food was absolutely delicious and we ate until we were way beyond stuffed. Afterwards we went shopping in the supermarket and bought large quantities of lunch box stuff (including a book on bentoboxes with recipes in English) so I think Teresa and I will be busy the night before first day of school :-)

#MidwesternSummer when driving back to the appartment

Japanese lunch stuff