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Growing up, I had 26 surgeries by the time I was 16, so the hospital in Chicago quickly became my second home. To this day, some people are still shocked when I tell them that, despite everything -- all the surgeries, all the hours spent sitting in doctors' waiting rooms, even all the traffic jams -- Chicago is my absolute favorite city in the whole world. Maybe it's because I feel like a piece of me and my past is still there, and it's good to revisit the past every once and awhile. It's also good to visit the city for non-medical reasons, which is exactly what we did last weekend when my cousin Mona flew in from New York City. Her flight came in early, so we spent some time walking around the city a bit. Our first stop...?
The famed John Hancock Center, where we enjoyed lunch overlooking the city from the building's 95th-floor Signature Room (
which had the best Mountain Dew I'd ever tasted).
Aren't these views spectacular? We couldn't help but feel like we were on top of the world as we looked out the window. It felt like we could practically reach out through the glass windows and touch the puffy, rolling clouds!
And this was even the view from the bathroom. Can you believe
that?
After lunch, we took a walk around Water Tower Place, an amazing mall I used to love going to when I was little. The view from the top -- some seven floors up! -- is something else, isn't it?
We spent the day telling lots of old stories about our days in my favorite city. Like the time I enjoy cheesecake for dessert while I was in the hospital. Or the times my sister would get so sad when she and my dad would go home at night and my mom would stay with me. Or the many times we'd drive to the city at least a few times a month for doctors' appointments. There's a lot of my family's history living and breathing in Chicago, needless to say. It was nice to revisit it.
Do you have a favorite city, friends? What memories live there? xoxo
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