The Wiindy City, Chicago and Sevres Urns With Pink Cherubs, Pink Oleanders and Let's Visit

This is Sue! I will tell you more about her later.

It's Saturday and as I promised when I first started blogging that I will take you sightseeing every Saturday and I have kept my promise, haven't I? But before I do that, let's join Beverly for Pink Saturday first. Please visit her at http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/
and then let's visit everyone else on her list of participants.

I would like to take you once again in our garden. We came home from Chicago late Wednesday night and looked out the kitchen breakfast nook window and this is what we saw. The oleander is blooming with bright pink flowers.
Here you will see a little fountain on the wall. I planted little climbing plants that attaches itself to the brick and it is just starting to climb but wouldn't you know it, it has to go soon because we are building a pool. Looks like this oleander is going too. Do you know if we can dig it out to transplant it? Will it survive?
It sure has pretty flowers and I hate to see it go. I hope we can save it.
Now, let's go inside the house and find something pink. Oh, I found 4 Sevres lidded urns. They have pink cherubs wearing pink scarves and there are also pink flowers so they should qualify, I think.
I placed 2 urns on both sides of the fireplace mantel in the family room.
And there you see all 4 of them. Somehow, John is obssessed with sevres pieces. We laugh about it but everytime we tour antebellum houses and he sees similar urns, he always gets the urge to turn them over to check who the maker is. One time, the tour guide asked him what he is doing. LOL!
Thanks, Beverly for adding me to your list of participants and for hosting another fun weekend event.

Now, let's go visit a beautiful windy city! Do you know that Chicago is one of the final 4 being considered to host the 2016 Summer Olympics? It is the only American city that made it on the short list. DH wants me to reserve a hotel room already. I wonder if they take reservations this far in advance. Before I go on, please visit Chandy of http://whatnowtablescapes.blogspot.com/. She is also taking us on a tour. Isn't that fun? 2 tours in one day! Hopefully, someday, we will have more tour guides to take us to other places. Thanks Chandy, for joining me again today.
Chicago is totally different from where we live in the south. You will notice the tall buildings right away. I think the tallest building in our hometown is only 5 stories high so you can just imagine how much I am enjoying the change.

Look at the pretty colorful tulips.

My sister met me and we went to the Water Tower. The Water Tower is famous for being the only public building that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It is 154 ft. tall and inside, it has a standpipe, 138 ft high, to hold water. It is the 2nd oldest water tower in the world. We shopped at the mall. I couldn't believe that we walked and shopped from 10 AM to 8 PM and this is after getting up at 1 AM to drive to the airport so I really did not get any sleep the night before. I was so tired and my legs were so stiff that I couldnt walk after I got back to the hotel

And you know, my sister who is 71 years old did not even get tired at all.

I love to see old buildings in the midst of tall modern ones. This is an Episcopal Church.

This was the view from our hotel room.

That distant building on the lake is the Planetarium.The Soldier Field.

We went to Chicago for Dh's medical convention meeting. It was at the McCormick Place and this is inside the convention center. Of course, I only mostly shopped around the city but every now and then, I would meet John at the exhibit show. I like to collect freebies, stuff that vendors give away. John is shy about collecting but you know, I think of it as giving the exhibitors a favor cause they wouldn't want to haul those back into their luggage, right?

I thought this is interesting. It's a robot they now use in some hospitals to perform the surgery.

A lot of urologists were very interested in how it works. They are watching a live surgery being performed by a robot in a hospital.

Navy Pier. My sister and her hubby picked us up one evening to take us there for dinner. Too bad it was cold and raining so we could not walk outside.

Even McDonalds inside the Pier looks elegant.

We went to the Field Museum one evening for dinner. It was pretty interesting to eat with the elephants and Sue, the largest, most complete and well preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever discovered.

And Sue is the real thing! We were welcomed by African tribal dancers and musicians.

Do you see Sue at the very far end in the center?

And here's John trying to compete in climbing. LOL!

This is Chicago but it was from another trip when we took my mom with us. Isn't that a spectacular view from the hotel room?

And this was from our trip last Christmas. We took AJ and my grand niece Bhrielle with us. We were so high up and the window was all the way to the floor so I told the kids that if they want to go look out the window they have to lay on the floor. I was getting nervous about them breaking the window glass and them falling.

The hotel had a gigantic gingerbread house display in the lobby,

I took this picture because I thought the clouds look really weird.

I hope you enjoyed our trip to Chicago. See you again next Saturday for another sightseeing trip! Thanks for coming!