After another good long nap which of course allowed mommy to have another good long bath, Cristiana and I headed out to Lincoln Park Zoo on our 4th day in Chicago. We actually made a pit stop at the Tribune Tower to pay daddy a little visit before our venture to the zoo, which he very much appreciated. We had a longer bus ride to the zoo which Cristiana was not too happy about. Our other outings have been train rides and then short bus rides but this was all bus. The Lincoln Park Zoo was lovely, and since it was an absolutely beautiful day (for the 3rd day in a row) it made it even nicer. The vegetation and outdoor animal exhibits are great. It's so cool to have something so "natural" in the city, but then again, Chicago is truly a beautiful city. Our trip back to the hotel was a bit more rough since the bus was pretty full and Cristiana was tired, and as we all know she will NOT fall asleep unless she's in her bed, no matter how tired she is. SO, needless to say I had to get off a couple of stops prior to ours in order to maintain both our sanity's. A nice LONG walk back along Michigan Ave. (the main downtown road) to our hotel.

After resting up a bit and having dinner, we headed out to visit the famous Buckingham Fountain, but as I like to call it, the "Married with Children" fountain. It was quite nice and periodically there's a fountain show with music, water pressure changes, and lights. We were lucky enough to see one while we were there.

Since we were out during the time they do the turn down service we were able to receive one (we always opted not to have one since we were usually in the room during that time). The turn-down service included fixing the room and turning down the bed of course, but they also placed a fish tank screen saver on the TV, romantic jazz music on the radio, "trump" waters on each night stand along with a motivational message, and placed our slippers on either side of the bed. The turn-down service made our last night at the hotel even nicer.

Make sure to pause the music at the bottom of the blog before playing the 2 videos below.