Nashville, and there's a happy baby making faces at me...

Is it rude to ignore an adorable baby? I'm finding myself shielding my eyes with my hand so that he doesn't feel tempted to look at me. Of course, of the dozens of seats here they pick my row.

I'm exhausted and the flight was terrifying. I did the math and I have 8 more flights in the next 4 weeks. That's an average of two flights a week. I am absolutely petrified by the idea of flying. As soon as I feel the aircraft begin to take off, I start having second thoughts, like I'm going to be able to go to the cockpit and tell the pilot to pull over for a second. And it's not like I haven't flown enough to be perfectly okay with it.

Well, one more flight then I'm going to plant myself onto a bed, face-first, shoes on, until my body absolutely forces me to wake up.

Nothing New to Post, So Here's Chicago!

My brain feels absolutely fried today. I feel like I need to post once a day on this blog, and I still have no new pictures of Lafayette to post because I can't seem to get things in order enough to charge my camera. I feel like I've been wandering aimlessly, stress eating, and working my perky little butt off. 

So my project today was to Photoshop some older pictures of my last trip to Chicago. These pictures were taken in August of 2011. The weather was absolutely gorgeous up there--way better than it would have been in Louisiana during that time. 

I am a huge fan of buildings, especially high-rises, so get ready to see lots of buildings. The next few pictures were taken from the Skydeck at the Willis Tower, formerly known at the Sears Tower. 

The tallest building in this photo is a residential building called One Museum Park. It's 62 floors and 734 ft tall.

311 South Wacker Drive is the tallest reinforced concrete office tower. It's 65 floors and 958 ft tall. 

The building with the blue roof is the United building, standing at 668 ft with 50 floors. The two beehive looking buildings next to it are called Marina City and they are residential towers, also 50 floors.

The building that stands out the most is the John Hancock Center. It is 100 floors and the tallest multi functional skyscraper in the world. 

Water Tower Place hold some stores and residential areas, and was named after the old Chicago Water Tower. The Hancock building nearby, was the tallest building in Chicago for a short while between 1968-1973.

Another fun fact about the John Hancock Center: Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment in the tower in 1997. Also, Jerry Springer currently lives in the tower. 

Trump Tower is the 2nd tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, trumped only by The Willis Tower. Donald Trump originally planned on making it the tallest building in the world, but after 9/11 he scaled back construction a bit. It is 89 floors and 1,362 ft tall. 

I honestly could not find the details on this building. I'm assuming it's some sort of residential building. I think it looks super cool and if anyone could tell me what it is, I would appreciate it. 

This is another pretty picture of the view from the Willis Tower. Unfortunately, being that I was in the Willis tower, it's the only building I didn't get pictures of. Lame!

The whitish building on the right is the AT&T Corporate Center. It's 60 stories. The building next to it is called the Hyatt Center. It's shiny and 49 stories tall. 

This one has a ton of cool buildings! In The bottom right corner you have a cameo by the Chase Tower. The really cool pointy building is called the Smurfit-Stone building. It is the feminist building in the Chicago Skyline as it's going for something a little less phallic than usual. The Empire State looking building toward the middle of the picture is the Two Prudential Building. It houses a Consulate General of Canada and stands at 964 ft. It's also won 8 awards, apparently. The awesome looking black rounded building in the back is called Lake Point Tower. I'm pretty sure this is the coolest looking building in the Chicago Skyline aside from the Aqua, which I don't have a picture of. It is a strictly residential building of 70 floors. Then, of course, the tallest building in this picture is the Aon Center, Chicago's 3rd tallest building. Fun fact, they had to redo the whole structure because the marble they used was too thin. It took 2 years to renovate, which isn't bad considering the building is 1,136 ft tall. 

This thing is appropriately named the Willis Tower Globe. It was installed in 2010, so it's still young. 

This dude wrote abunch of children's stories like "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina" and "The Snow Queen". I don't know why it's in Lincoln Park though. Someone enlighten me. 

This is a Lego version of the Chicago Skyline. I found whilst walking around and looking for a bathroom. 

Wrigley Field during a Cubs' game. Did you know Wrigley field was built in 6 weeks for a whopping $250,000? 

Wrigley Field is one of the last baseball fields to keep a hand-turned score board. It is still manually operated today, which is pretty cool.

Alright, those are my expertly photoshopped pictures of Chicago in 2011. I hope you guys enjoyed them. I feel like I learned a crap-ton about the Chicago Skyline today.

Until next time!

>>>>Edit:

Thanks to a fellow redditor, the identity of the short, white, S-shaped building was revealed. It is named River City and was the product of the same architect as Marina City, which makes absolute sense. Marina City and River City are very organic and I'm sure super amazing to live in. Thanks Reddit!