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Day 29: Fireworks and a Man from Sheffield:
Well, today is my fourth week of being away. it has gone really wuick and I still have 6 weeks to go! So, me and Lisa finally got in contact and she said it was still fine for me to come stay. We can't work out what happened with the phone or where the Indian guy came from. But I am here now and that's the main thing. She has also very kindly let me stay and extra 2 days as the other person I was mean to stay with "forgot" I was coming and now can't host me! So i spent the day wandering Chicago again. As i had my backpack, I went to the cinema to see hancock which is really funny. I then went down to Navy piew, which is exactly what it says it is, as well as having many restaurants by the water. i decided to do something I said i would never be able to do - have diner in a restaurant alone. I know I am travelling alone, but to eat alone is scary. bit, i did it - I went to a Mexican restaurant, sat with my book, ate and watxhed everyone look at me with pity lol. Oh, and then this couple asked me to take their wedding photos - very odd, I am not sure where their wedding party was.
I then met with Lisa, who is really awesome, and we went to watch the fireworks for independence day (they are on the 3rd here and i have no idea why). The display was excellent, and went on for over 20 minutes. i have literally never seen that many people in my life. There were about 1.5 million people watching the fireworks there apparently. it was really cool standing there, watching the fireworks with everyone and being part of something that is really important to the country i love so much. Everyone takes this holiday very seriiusly. As the fireworks finished, we started the momouth task of leaving, along with erveryone else. A few of the main streets were closed and completly filled with people (as you can see from the photos I have uploaded). It's a site I cannot even descrive, the sheer volume of people. I didn't even feel panicy because everyone was in such a good mood, it made me in a good mood. Then, the strangest thing happened - amongst the millions of people in the middle of Chicago, the guy next to me said "hey, where you from?", Manchester i saud, "I'm from Sheffield" - it really is a small world.
After we went to a bar. now this is the first proper american bar I have been to, because the others were a redneck bar and a salsa club. The it was home for sleepy's/
I really can't express how much i love Chicago, or even why i do so much. it just really is a perfect balance of everything. Cookie, I cans ee why you wanted to come here so much, really wish you were here to enjoy it with me. All the good looking people seem to live here (sorry Dave lol) and everyone is just generally so friendly and so much more relaxed than say new york. i love it here!
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