Tuesday, May 12, 2009

1st Thing I Love About Chicago: Lake Michigan - Brady

I'm starting a new list of things I love about Chicago to balance the fretting I've been doing about moving.

Note: "1st Thing I Love" doesn't mean I love it the most. It's just the 1st in the series.

Here it is..............





Lake Michigan.

I think there are two kinds of people - water people and mountain people. You just know which you are - it's the thing you want to be around all the time. If you daydream about vacationing in the Caribbean, you're a water person. If you like Colorado, you're a mountain person.

I am SO a water person. Seriously. It's so bad that if I'm anywhere near a lake, river, creek, pond, whatever, I insist on sleeping on the side of the bed that's closest to the water and keeping the windows open no matter what the weather.

When I moved to Chicago, I felt like I was on vacation every day. The city itself is, of course, fantastic, but what really did it was looking out at that beautiful ocean - lake all the time.

If you've never been, I would highly recommend spending a day at the beach in Chicago in the summer (ha ha, as opposed to spending a day at the beach in Chicago in the winter). It is still unbelievable to this Hoosier that I can sit on a beach, look one way and watch the waves roll in, then look the other way and see the best skyline in the world (Yes, it is the best. I will take up that argument with anybody and will soon add it to my series of things I love about my favorite city.)

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