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| Jim Venner working hard. |
Laura in her new apartment. |
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More apartment pictures. |
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The Silo, where we ate dinner. |
Laura's decorated walls. |
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| DNA column at Rosalind Franklin. |
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| Googly eyes in the sign. |
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| The address of the school has Laura's lucky number. |
Some Navy place. |
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Henry the frog, whom we found on a walk one evening. |
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| Henry Jr. |
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Cool old bench by Lake Michigan. |
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| Lake Michigan. |
A doggy that looked like Pepper (it's a Portuguese water dog). |
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Sailboats. |
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| Swanky houses in Lake Bluff. |
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| An ivyfied tailor shop. |
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Laura has a bed! Yippee! |
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Laura's cozy apartment. |
Train tracks near the apartments. |
Laura waits for her first Metra train ride. |
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The Church of the Holy Turnip. |
The Church of the Holy Onions. |
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| Sears Tower from the train. |
Unloading from the train. |
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The opera building. |
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| The first bridge we saw in Chicago. |
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| Laura at the base of the Sears Tower. |
David at the same. |
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The elevator to the top. Whoosh! |
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| Laura and David at the top of Sears Tower. |
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Some of the sights from the top. |
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| The Y junction of the Chicago River. |
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The John Hancock building. |
L. Frank Baum lived in Chicago. |
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| The elevator down. |
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The elevated train. |
A bank building. |
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| Chicago Board of Trade with statues. |
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The library. It was so cool! Note the owl gargoyles. |
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| The Art Institute. |
Meow! |
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The Faces of Death exhibit at Millennium Park. |
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| The moving video installations spout water. |
It's kind of eerie. |
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Lots of fun for the kiddies! |
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The best part of the park! The Giant Gleaming Globule, also known as Cloud Gate. |
It's a huge globby polished mirror statue. |
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The reflections are entrancing. |
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| I like this picture. |
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The inside has weird convexities and concavities. |
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| You can see yourself reflected in many places at once. |
This is what happens when your camera flashes. |
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The orchestra rehearsing. |
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A 3 address. |
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| David gets his Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. |
The Exchequer restaurant where we ate our pizza. |
Some steps to the El. |
Walking along Wacker Drive. |
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A building with a hole in it! |
The Wrigley Building. |
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The Merchandise Mart. |
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333 West Wacker Drive, another 3 address. |
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| Another 3 address. |
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The famous water tower. |
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| The John Hancock building. |
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Laura on her way to the first day of orientation. |
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Making faces in the mirror the night before I left. |
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