Bus Tours & Bowling in Chicago

So we've been in Chicago for almost a week now. The travel day from St. Paul was pretty crazy, as all of our flights from St. Paul to Chicago got cancelled at about 7:00am Monday morning. We had to scramble around and eventually got a charter bus to DRIVE the cast to Chicago. We left at 12:30pm (instead of 9:30AM when we were supposed to leave for the airport) and got in to Chicago at about 9pm. Everyone was really great about the whole situation and it ended up working out fine. On the bus we even watched Robert Dorfman's home movies he has made from videotaping the tour from the beginning. (Robert plays Underling in the show.) Also, we had a great dinner stop at Cracker Barrell in Madison, Wisconsin! Gotta love road trips! (And now I can say I have been to Wisconsin.)

So this past Thursday morning I went on a bus tour of Chicago with 2 girls from the company. It was the "Devil in the White City" bus tour. It was basically a tour to go along with the book by Erik Larson, about the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the murders of serial killer H. H. Holmes. I am currently reading the book and the tour was really fascinating and helpful. Here are a couple of pictures:


This building is really cool because during the fair they made all of these manmade canals and lagoons that people could travel along in gondolas or boats, so the front entrance to this exhibition building is actually at the top of a flight of stairs which goes down into the water of this lagoon. Now the front entrance is what used to be the back entrance.



Then, on Thursday night, after the show, Georgia had asked me to help plan a bowling night. We bowled at 10Pin Chicago, a really fun bowling lounge with great food (TATER TOTS!), a bar, and big projection screens over the lanes where they play music videos to whatever song is on. We had so much fun!





Then, the staff af the bowling alley asked Georgia to sign a bowling pin for the wall of fame. She signed it "Thank you! We had a ball! From the world's worst bowler, Georgia Engel".