Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Chicago ---1


Chicago, as the second largest city in America, carrys too many dreams. Just as what happens in Chicago, the famous movie. In my first Thanksgiving holiday, I went to the dream city to take in the charm of Chicago.
It was 6:00 am but we had already waken up and set off to the station. The long travel was really boring. The best way to kill the time maybe is sleeping and since we got up so early all of us were tired. The quiet coach marched to Chicago. Until about 3 pm we arrived in the destination. It didn't mean the trip was finished. We walked 40-50 minutes to go to the hotel with luggage. As soon as we put down the luggage, we visited the famous city. It proved that the nickname "Windy City" is true. We walked on Michigan Ave. Due to the Thanksgiving, nearly all shops closed. But the scenery was beautiful. And I saw the Water Tower. It was very familiar for me because I saw it at Wilson Library. The Chicago Water Tower locates at the Michigam Aveneue along the shopping district. The Water Tower serves as one of the Chicago Office of Tourism's Official Visitor's Centers. It is the second-oldest water tower in the United States. The tower, built in 1869, is 154 feet tall. The tower gained prominence after the great Chicago fire of 1871. It was the only building in the burned zone to survive, and is the only one of the surviving structures still standing. In the years since the fire, the tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and of the city's recovery from the fire. We looked for a place to eat dinner. Finally, we eat at Mcdonald. The Mcdonald was so big. We were the poor people who can't eat Thanksgiving dinner at Thanksgiving eve. On our way to hotel, there were many people making tents to prepare for the shopping on the nest day

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