Spring Break 06 - Day 1: Chicago ahoy!

Rented the cars from National at around 4 PM and took off to Chicago right away. Was not much of a drive and were into the city in about 3 hours. The fun came after that when the address given was a 'little' different than where we actually were supposed to go.
Ajinkya's school-mate was the person we were planning to go to. Well, for some 'not-yet-known' reason, he could not come out of his apartment building. The address he had given was some thing different and he could not even guide us to his building from where we were, which we later understood was just behind his building's entrance.
And we had made this interesting error of mistaking O'Hare airport with O'Hare airport's information centre. (The two of these are 20 miles apart). With this amazing realization, we had our plans changed drastically. According to the original plan, we were supposed to go to the airport to collect Amit (whose flight was landing at 9.30) and Dhaval (whose flight was touching down at 11). With the airport moving 20 miles farther, this plan was dumped into the waste basket along with the remains of the packed Indian food we had bought at the nearby 7-11.
As soon as Amit was here, we let him know that he should wait for Dhaval and then the 2 of them should catch a cab and get down to this place where we were and then go ahead with other plans. With a little pissed off and hungry Amit waiting for Dhaval, we decided to get on with making some plans and knowing the city better. Asking this 'in-the-building' guy felt a waste of time and so I called up another guy named Gunjan, who I know stayed somewhere close. Luckily it was really close (just the next apartment building). Consulting him made quite a few things clearer. And we also got a place to lay our a$$es to rest after whatever it was that we were going to be doing.
Well, things did not go quite as smooth as I had hoped, and I don't even want to get into that, now that its gone, but we surely had our share of fun. That night, after Dhaval and Amit made it to the rest spot, after about half an hour, we left towards downtown Chicago. With small walks around downtown at about 2 AM I was surely having fun.
The Sears Towers did make a nice sight. With the moon in the background and the Sears shiny black stones gleaming in the white light with the black sky draping the backstage, snaps were bound to be taken. They should be up in the album I have (or will soon be having) along with this blog. We also walked along some other places that we just thought would be cool for a walk. Finally everyone retired wherever they were supposed to be sleeping at around 4 AM.We slept pretty soundly at Gunjan's even with all his room-mates playing dumbcharades in really ˜excited" tones just in the nearby room.