It’s cold in Chicago

I am up here for a conference… the Institute for Scholarly Communication to be exact, and I was ridiculously unprepared for this trip. I had to stop in a Walgreen’s earlier to buy a hat and some gloves. It’s really cold here, but not unbearable.

I took a walk up Michigan Avenue, which was decorated and very busy with shoppers. I also walked over the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Bridge and down to to Daley Plaza to visit the Christkindlmarket and got some very good apple strudel (only a half). A very relaxing and enjoyable walk through my absolute favorite city, even though it was snowy, cold and wet.

Tomorrow morning I am off to the Newberry Library, which I didn’t get to visit when I was here in 2005. The conference gets going at noon, and then it’ll be work for the rest of the trip.

Though I am a lifelong Texan, I really enjoy this city and even this weather. Check the Flickr pictures on the right for some of the shots from my walk earlier this evening.