Chicago Day 3

I'll start this post by mentioning that we're all tired! But, what a day! Who knew we needed to fly to Chicago in March to have a beautiful, sunny day by the beach (lake front anyway)?!

The morning started with rehearsals - Honors group got to work with Dr. Dabcynski (he's amazing! He is a professor at BYU Provo teaching Music Education - great teacher!) and the rest of the group worked in sectional rehearsals. At 10am we all hopped on the hotel shuttles to go to the train station. The train in Chicago is a double deck commuter train - great ride! By a little after noon we were in downtown Chicago. Different groups went different places - but one thing we all did... WALK and WALK and WALK! One group went to the Navy Pier, one to the Field Museum, and a few went shopping along Michigan Avenue. I think our Oregonians saw more people in one place than they've ever seen - there were masses and masses of people everywhere! After 3-4 hours of walking, we all congregated at Gino's East pizza only to find out that we were actually booked into the 'other' Gino's East and need to walk another 20 minutes. What a yummy treat once we got there though - deep dish Chicago-style pizza... cornbread crust... yum!!!

The next part of our trip wasn't so much fun... we walked a few blocks to the "L" (elevated train), took 2 quick trains to the Train station to catch the big train... only to find out that we were about 2 minutes too late. Ugh! Luckily, the Westin hotel came to our rescue - driving two gleaming white horses (well, shuttles anyway). By 8:30pm we were seated in our rehearsal room back at the hotel... amazing! We rehearsed until 10 (Chamber worked until about 10:30pm) and now we're off to bed.

Quotes of the day (other than "Gina, where's your phone?"):
1. Stop being so straight and go shopping.
(unofficial) 2. What's he's doing? He's being Chris.