A quick breakfast at the Corner Bakery Cafe on South Michigan Avenue (sampling another of Lashonda's cappuccinos) and then over the road to the Art Institute of Chicago , according to Trip Advisor, the Number 1 museum in the WORLD (actually that depends where you look but it IS pretty impressive whether or not it is actually #1).
Certainly it has some very famous works of art including Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks", Mark Chigall's "America Windows" and Claude Monet's "Stacks of Wheat" to name but three. However, perhaps most appropriate, given the nature of our trip, is Pablo Picasso's "The Old Guitarist"
To be honest, four hours was not enough to give the place justice but time is no longer on our side and Chicago O'Hare airport is calling us for the night flight back to the UK. Having flown out to the USA on a brand new state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner we flew home on the grand-daddy of the skies a Boeing 747-400 "Jumbo Jet" . Remarkably, the original Jumbo first flew nearly 50 years ago - actually before Concorde - and, in its current guise, it is still going strong.
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