Chicago for NTI

I went to the National Critical Care Nursing Conference the beginning of May and really enjoyed the classes and things I learned. We also got to enjoy some other things while out in Chicago after all the classes were done for the day. Here is a little bit of what we did.



This is Sue. She is the largest whole T-Rex found in the United States. A mold of her skeleton is the dinosaur in the museum in the movie "A Night at The Museum."



This is the Chicago Theater. I am sure you have seen this sign before. Very cool to see this theater in the middle of such an enormous city.



We walked out on Navy Pier one night expecting it to be filled with people and a fun night life. There was no one there. But this is a cool view looking back at the city from the pier.



We went to the White Sox vs. Twins game while we were in town. Sadly the Cubs were away. But we bought some tickets from a scalper on the way into the game. I walked away from him at first saying no, we want cheap seats. He called us back when we had walked about 30 ft and sold us these tickets, 4 rows off the first base line for 20 bucks a piece. Great seats for what turned out to be a great game.



This is the team celebrating with the Twins pitcher, Liriano, who just threw a no hitter. Pretty cool to be at a game that the pitcher throws a no hitter. It does not happen often so it was very memorable.



A look at the score board. You can see the fat 0 under the hits for the White Sox. The other cool part is that the only score for the Sox was Liriano's designated hitter hitting a home run. Basically the Pitcher and his hitter won this game.



Beeler, Eric, and I watching the game.



Me in front of the NBC building. I felt like I was on 30 Rock. Very cool building.



We went to Giordano's Pizza which was just around the corner from our hotel. It was delicious. I had never had a true Chicago style deep dish pizza. As you can see it has a deeper crust than any pizza you can get anywhere else. Absolutely the best pizza I have ever had in my life.



One afternoon Eric and I walked to the Sears Tower because we wanted to see it up close. We did not go up to the observation deck because it costs 17 bucks to do it. You can see the observation decks way up near the top of the building. There were still 20 or so floors after the decks. Oh by the way. This building has changed names to Willis Tower.