Architectural Tour of Chicago

Grace and I decided we needed to do some touristy things before it got too cold, so we took a trip to Navy Pier. Apparently Navy Pier is the most visited tourist destination in the Midwest, but we went on a weekday afternoon in September so it was actually pretty quiet. While we were there we decided to go on a boat tour of Chicago's architecture. We took a lot of photos while on the tour...I'll highlight a few but you can see them all here.

The tour started with a little speedboat action in the Harbor, giving us an opportunity to snag some shots of the skyline and Navy Pier. Most of the pictures I took had my fingers in the way because I was clutching my phone so tightly, this was a nice one Grace took.

Our tour guide looked a lot like Zach Galifianakis (the guy from the movie The Hangover). Like Mr. Galifianakas (that's a fun one to type), our tour guide (Mike) was pretty hilarious.

These towers look just like two giant corn husks! Mike had lots of corny jokes to tell about them, it was excellent.

I nice shot of the ever so phallic Trump Tower. It sort of looks like the barrel of a gun aimed at the sky.

I can't remember the name of this building, but Mike had a nice story to go along with it. Apparently the building was the winning entry in an architectural design competition where the winner would get their design built in downtown Chicago. One of the most interesting entries was a building designed to look like a man that was straddling the river...needless to say, if that design had won it would make for some interesting photos.

The iconic Willis (Sears) Tower. It was so tall and we were so close that we had to lean all the way back to try to snap a shot, and even then it didn't really fit.

Afterwords we decided to grab some candy from one of the shops on Navy Pier. That night we ate way too much candy and had bellyaches :(