Chicago Report!

[przed]

It's been two days now since we flew back from Chicago, so I figured I should put up some sort of post. The trip was, I have to say, absolutely amazing. There was fun family stuff like taking Ros to the Children's Museum and a Chinese Circus, and great panels, like the brilliant Kaffeklatsch I managed to get into with Ken Liu ahead of his winning the Hugo for Best Short Story. And it was also nice to catch up with my cousins, and some LJ friends. (Hi pxr5 and sooguy.)

Going to the con and attending panels has even re-invigorated my desire to write a bit of pro fic, as did Ros when I was explaining the Hugos to her:

Me: I'm going to the Hugos tonight.
Ros: What's that?
Me: It's a ceremony where they give awards to people for writing the best stories.
Ros: Are you getting one?

That just made me well up a bit.

Okay, before I crash, have a few pictures...

First, Ros in front of the Bean. (Okay, the sculpture is actually called the Cloud Gate, but no one calls it that.)



Whilst I was doing panels Thursday and Friday mornings, Ros and the Sweetie rented a bike and went for a marathon ride down the lakeshore. They had a blast.


Me and Ros on a concrete sofa on the River Walk.


Every time we took the stairs up from the River Walk, we passed by this mass of Chicago Police cars, some of which were totalled or upside down. I can only assume that either they were filming something nearby, or that the Chicago cops are really bad drivers.


Ros at a nearby park, doing the kid version of a zipline. I have a feeling that as soon as she's big enough to do a real zipline, there'll be no stopping her.)

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[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

The Bean!

The shot of the police cars looks an awful lot like the chase scenes from The Blues Brothers, except of course that the cars are 30-some-odd years too new and they didn't just leave that mess on Lower Wacker Drive. One does presume that they're filming something and that Chicago's finest just got a new fleet.

Google-fu addendum: it's an Indian movie Dhoom 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833673/).

[przed.livejournal.com]

We half thought the cars might be some sort of Blues Brothers homage at first, but saw them filming something nearby in the Loop a couple of days later. Thanks for enlightening me on what it was. Cool!