I will keep this brief since if I elaborate with everything I did and felt I will never finish. You will see why. A fantastic day!
1.- Left hotel at about 9 a.m. wandering through Millenium and Grant Park while waiting for the Art Institute to open at 10.
2.- A couple of wonderful hours with occasional involuntary gasps of pleasure visiting with the Impressionists and other European artists.
3.- A Walk along Lakeshore Dr. and up along the Magnificent mile with a disappointing encounter with chopped BEEF liver at a deli where I was expecting chopped chicken liver. You would have thought at my age I would have learned about those pesky expectations by now. So a no to the beef and then to next door to lemon chicken!
4.- By the Art Institute is the Concert Hall where I found information that led (after a small nap) to attending the 8 p.m. FREE Civic Orchestra (Symphony “trainees”–maybe second chairs would be better) concert last night with Don Juan by Strauss and Dvorzack’s #8. Bought tickets for Tuesday’s Symphony performance of Brahm’s #1.
5.- After a day of both physical (walking about 10 miles) and cultural extremes, it was back to the hotel for dinner and collapse.
6.- Link to pics for those with time: Chicago Photos
Life is good.