Country Boy Meets the Big City

So this weekend my bro was flying up to Alaska for his wedding this Saturday. We are heading up on Wednesday and will be returning on Monday. So anyway he had a connecting flight in Chicago with a 13 hour layover. Cathy and I met him at the airport and the three of us went out for some Chicago pizza, which could be some of the best pizza I have ever eaten!! When we finished eating it was around 9:30 and we decided that we wanted to hit the Navy Pier. We discovered that the train system would take us within 6 blocks. As we were walking into the station some people were leaving and handed us these tickets, we didn't know what they were but took them. Turns out they are day pass tickets to ride anything, anywere in the city!! We got on the train and headed to the Navy Pier it was about a 30 minute commute to down town. When we got off and on the street we were totally lost fortunately our keen since of direction kicked in and we decided to go thhhhhat way. On the subway a guy told us that when we get off we should only have about a 10 minute walk. Well after walking for 45 minutes we began to think that our since of direction was a little off. The streets quickly faded and I think what set off that we were going to wrong way was when the sidewalk turned to gravel and there were no more street lights. We talked to a guy on a street corner who informed us that we had gone exactly the wrong way! When we got back to the subway station, 1.5 hours after we got off it was almost midnight and we were beat tired from walking. We got back on the train and heaed back to the car. Let me tell you what, the Chicago subway system is interesting at 12:30am!
Back at the car we said good bye to Chris, he jumped back on the train and took it to the airport and we headed up. It would have been fun to see the navy pier but getting lost in downtown was cool too.