I went to Chicago over the weekend with my parents and younger sister to see Richard Wagner's
Parsifal performed by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as for a belated birthday celebration.
The opera was amazing. I mean goose-bump and tear-inducingly beautiful.
We arrived friday night for dinner, shopped on saturday morning/early afternoon, and went to the opera in the late afternoon (it started at 5pm and ran until after 11pm). On sunday, we wandered around Chicago a little.
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| Friday night dinner of salmon and lentils. |
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| My sister is a much happier person in the morning once she's had some coffee. |
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| The Marshall Fields (now Macy's) holiday windows featured the history of the holidays at Marshall Fields. This on shows the clock being set with the holiday decorations hanging around it. |
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| And here it is for real! |
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| We, of course, went to Sephora where my mom bought be some birthday presents. |
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| We listened to a short lecture about before the opera. |
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| The Chicago Opera House is beautiful. |
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| My sister and mom all dressed up. |
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| Me and my sister. |
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| The art on the wall in our hotel room was a photo of an x-ray of a violin. |
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| On Sunday, we saw the world's largest Tiffany Dome which is in the Chicago Cultural Center (previously the Chicago Public Library). |
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| Great photo of my dad (and me) at breakfast! |
We had a wonderful time!
You all look so stunning! I love Chicago, my family is from there and visiting is always a blast. Always gotta have pizza, but that salmon looks pretty good, too!
ReplyDeleteHad we gone to a restaurant that offered Chicago-style pizza I would have ordered it!
DeleteHooray, it looks like you had so much fun! I lived in Chicago for a few years, but somehow never managed to go to the opera house... it's stunning!
ReplyDeleteOther favorite Chicago things: the art museum and the aquarium. We didn't have time to see them this time though.
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