Where are we going today? (continued STLF trip)

"What's on the agenda for today?" One of the most asked questions of the trip. Most of the answers I received was "You'll see." with a knowing smile. The unknowing was killing me inside.
We made it to Elgin, IL.

Right away, we were able to take showers at a Fitness Center(?), and were given time to explore outside on the beautiful day.

It was here and at a park right next to it that we (the STLF group) found many treasures.

And proceeded to make as many memories as we could in our limited time.

And even more by the river.

We even took a couple awkward family photos.

Somehow, they never really turned out. But aren't family pictures always like these anyway?

Afterwards, we visited a nursing home and talked to some pretty amazing people. Not many people can handle being around elderly people anymore. I believe that is a real shame because they are the ones with the wisdom and have loads of stories to tell. If I am ever in need of a good story, I would go to a nursing home. Not only that, but elderly people can get awful lonesome sometimes because their relatives never visit them. And that is a real shame because the relatives are missing out.

On the bus ride, I was being taught the basics of playing the Ukulele. I still only remember how to play the C, even though I was more.

When we arrived at Chicago, we were given time to roam and explore the city a little bit, so we took a Ferris Wheel ride and went to the Bean.

This was one of the beautiful views from the Ferris Wheel.

It was both scary and fun to be so high in the air! But we had to move on to other things which included the Bean! But on our way there we found a cool statue.

We walked for a a long while in the terrible heat to get to the Bean, but we made it.

It wasn't long before we were taking millions of pictures because of how cool the Bean was!!

We took so much time there, and getting food that we basically had to run the huge number of blocks to try to get to the bus on time. We were five minutes late, but we would have been probably 10 to 15 minutes late if we didn't power walk and run the crosswalks with only 3 or 4 seconds before the lights changed.

We were all exhausted by the time we were able to get on the bus.