Navy Pier is the Devil's Playground
Our plan for today was to go to the Shedd Aquarium and to rent bikes to ride along the waterfront. But which to do first? It was drizzly in the morning when we set out, so we decided to do the aquarium first and hope that the weather would clear up by the afternoon. We wound up doing neither. The line at the aquarium was waaaay too long, so we hopped a water taxi over to Navy Pier to see a 3-D Deep Sea IMAX. It is one of the coolest IMAX movies I've seen, plus it was a good substitute for actually going to the aquarium. We walked around Navy Pier for a few minutes before deciding it was an atrocious tourist haven, and retreated to a far less crowded sidewalk cafe and market for a light lunch and some gourmet marketing. Then we picked up Gentleman Caller's friends, went shopping for a cookout and returned to their apartment to make dinner and hang out on the patio. We had grilled pork tenderloin with a grilled Serrano chile and tomatillo salsa, grilled Romaine with a lemon vinaigrette, grilled zucchini and yellow squash and a vanilla cake with whipped cream, strawberries and blueberries. Yum.