Girls Weekend Away

My last trip before our 4th arrives was spent in Chicago with my friend Renae. She turned 30 this week, and decided for her birthday to have some fun in Chicago and of course catch a Nascar race in the process. We have both been there several times for work, but never for pleasure, so we had a great time touring the city.

The beach...it was amazing, and right off a major street


View from the beach, it is such a pretty city with all the tall buildings


We rode the ferris wheel at Navy Pier, don't worry it goes like 2 miles an hour (takes 7 mins), but gives you a great view of Chicago


Another view...the funny thing is my friend had her eyes closed most of the time, she doesn't really like heights

We tend to run into celebrities or some sort of hollywood thing whenever we are together. When we went to Daytona 500, we saw filming/building of Extreme Makeover Home Edition. This trip was no different. As we were going to the Willis Tower (used to be Sears Tower) we ran into Paramont Pictures unloading several burnt cars. So we continued on but came back after. Turns out they were setting up to film Transformers 3. So, like any normal person, we went back the net morning to see filming.

View from Willis Tower...we were on the 103th floor 1,945ft up, again such an amazing view
especially at night

View from the glass walkout area

Back the next morning at the filming of scenes from the movie. I think we saw about 4 scenes being shot

This sign was just so funny to see

This was the camera guy following the cars driving down the road, truly is amazing to see how the filming was done

Now onto the race, this is Mark Martin in case your are not a Nascar expert... :)

One of the only pictures I got of me and Renae...Happy 30th Renae, I had a blast.