On Saturday morning we went to a hairdresser to get our hair done for the wedding! The person who did our hair was...really interesting!!! Oh no, not in the bad way, he was really nice and sweet and good at his work, it was just...well, just think about those gay hairdresser/stylist or that kind of men in the movies and tv programmes - and you will know what i mean!!! It was so funny!!! And actually the whole Friday night and Saturday it felt like I really was in some movie because the city is so AMAZING!!! When i saw the skyscrepers, all those high buildings from the road still far away from the city it felt like a dream!!! I have never seen that kind of place!!! Only in movies!!! In the Friday night we went up to the John Hanckok Center's Observatory! I can tell you, it is really high!!! And we went all the way to the top and the view from there was brethtaking!!! Unbelievebly beautiful!!! The sun was just going down and we could see the lake and all the lights and other buildings in the city! :)
Okay, back to the Saturday...I walked in the Water Tower Place wich is a huge shopping mall with my penpal Abbey! And in the evening the wedding started! It was a really nice place called West Loop Studio and there came a lot of people!!! And, if it can be possible, they were even louder and happier than american people are usually!! I guess alcohol had something to do with it...:D It was really fun idea that they had the party first and then in the midnight the ceremony!! I had a great time there and i really got to speak english with abbey and it was good!!! My mother was the maitron of honor so after the ceremony we still had to stay there and help cleaning a bit.
The weather here is really really warm, hot actually!!! And i don't have any summer clothes with me! I just couldn't think in Finland that it could be so hot in here! :D This is a big city and we have seen so different people and everything!!! There are limousines, luxory hotels, all those expensive stores, cabs driving everywhere, police cars, people protesting against something with signs like " Skip Halloween!" or " Abortion kills babies!" , reastaurants and cafes, women on really high heels, horse carriages (believe or not!!! there are lots of them in Chicago), and lots of other great and amazing things! But then on the other side you can see lots of homeless people, families trying to sleep in a park under a tree, a man looking for something to eat from the trash, people sitting on the street with peaces of paper that say " I am homeless and need food..." and so on... That makes me sad! But that is the way the big cities are I suppose! And to add still something to my long list, today was a big marathon here in Chicago, so a lot of runners!! :D Many roads were closed because of the marathon and there were even more people in the downtown today!!! With all those balloons and signs and everything.
Today we went to Jenni and Jim's home for lunch! For the last time we helped with cooking and everything. There were many of the people that were there in the wedding. When we left there it was kind of strange because we have spent so much time in there and with those wonderful people! I am really going to miss them! Jenni's parents I am goign to see soon because we will go to Ohio to visit them. We are their Finland's "grandchildren"! :D It has been really wonderful to get to see real peoples life and home and everything instead of just beeing a tourist somewhere! It has been amazing! And it will continue because tomorrow we are going to drive to Wisconsin to Slinger to visit Finland's exchange student Miretta! her host family invited us and on tuesday i will get to go to high school with Miretta!!! I am so excited! :)
Now I will go to bed and listen to the noices of the city. It is really not those sounds you hear in my home town! :D
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