NYC bound!

On the train once again, destination: New York City!!! Had a great day in Chicago yesterday, went up the sears tower (now renamed the Willis tower, wtf??) so that was quite the ordeal! Endless lines before you actually get to the top, it's insane. I think it took 2 hours at least! But the view was stupendous! Chicago definitely has some beautiful architecture. Afterwards we had true, authentic Chicago deep dish pizza. WOW it truly is a pizza PIE! so yummy. I dont know if i can go back to regular pizza!!

There are a lot of interesting people that we ran into on the street. One well dressed man in a spiffy suit was a street preacher, who ended every sentence "you're going to hell" but sounded more like hay-ell haha. If you don't stop smokin dem druuugz den you goin to hay-ell :D he made some good points, too bad he was crazy. We gave a yogi bar to a young guy sitting on the corner, singing his heart out, obviously just making up verses on the spot, with a sign that said "stranded". He was singing something about getting all his shit in the car...he was very passionate too lol. And of course my favorite, the obnoxious saxophone player on the corner...he only knows one song and he plays it all day extremely loudly!!!

We don't like this new train as much as the old one. I take back all the bad things i said about it! There's less leg room, only one floor (which means we can't take over the unused cafe downstairs with the long benches like we did last time) and the lounge is way smaller. AND we left 25 mins late and everyone says that trains never leave Chicago late if they can help it! Although we left 6 hours late in Sacramento and 2 hours late in Salt Lake City...much improved.

We had an eventful night nevertheless. Shani slept in the overheard luggage compartment! It was empty so I said it would be a great place to sleep since you can stretch out. So that's where she went haha and I got both seats :) the conducters seem more strict on this train then the others but they didn't notice her up there. Anyway we arrive in about 7 hours and will hopefully see a great fireworks show in NYC!