Chicago TFA Day 1

We left for Chicago at night on the Megabus so we got there at 7am pretty groggily because the seats weren't exactly comfortable. I actually thought sleeping on an airplane was much easier. Once we arrived in Chicago, we were rather disoriented and lost so it took us a long time to figure out how to use the Chicago transport authority. When we finally got situated at the church, we talked to the church leaders, who were really friendly. Fortunately, we were staying in the northside of Chicago, in Lincoln park which is in north Chicago, so we were in one of the nicer neighborhoods. DePaul university was across the street from us so we liked the atmosphere.  We were all so tired that several of us took naps before we went out to explore.
Once we were somewhat rested, we used the "l line" to go to Wrigleyville and check out Wrigley field, the home of the Chicago cubs. After that, we walked downtown to millennium park, where we checked out the ever popular "bean" that is well known for being able to see the reflection of the city. We then walked to Kincade's, a bar and restaurant owned by Kansas alumni to watch the KU Purdue game. Since it was a bar dedicated to Kansas, it was nice being in a bar with fellow Kansas fans all around. After that thrilling finish, we were all exhausted and decided to go back to the church since it had been such a long day. It had been estimated that we had walked around 7 miles. In addition, at most, we had gotten about 5 hours of sleep the night before. Overall, we all liked our first day since we were able to get a better sense of what Chicago is like. It wasn’t horribly crowded and we were very fortunate to have such great weather, in the 70s all day and sunny! It wasn’t too crowded ever but we did notice that Chicago seemed to go at a much quicker pace than what we were used to in Lawrence.