Sunday morning open thread

In the spirit of giving Joe the weekend off, I'm taking over the Sunday morning thread as well. I'm still in Chicago, and spent the day yesterday downtown with my sister and her family, as is their annual day-after-Christmas tradition. They start the day off insanely early - we got moving a little before 8am - and we head first to a great diner called Lou Mitchell's.



After that we head to Michigan Avenue to do some shopping, or at least window shopping (seemed to me that the "sales" weren't exactly that enticing this year). And the crowds weren't there either, not until mid-afternoon at least. But it was a snowy day in Chicago, with big fat snowflakes and not too much wind, upper 20s - was just gorgeous. And it being Chicago, an expected 4-6 inches of snow didn't slow anybody down.

Next up was the Lincoln Park Zoo. Every Christmas they cover all the trees in the lights and open the zoo up at night. It's amazing (see photo below). The entire zoo is lights and music. And you can go check out the animals too. I ended up getting a lot of cool pictures of the fish, and some of the gorillas entertained us for a while as well. Overall it was a great day. I really love and miss Chicago.