The Hyatt has a very nice salad bar.
They want you to take the whole buffet, but it costs half again as much, and the salad bar has the best stuff. Smoked fish. Cheese. Tuna salad.
In addition to the nice greens and other fresh veggies.
Also including poached pears. Which could use some spicing. Cinnamon, perhaps?
I mentioned the hotel is a hollow cube. The restaurant is out in the lobby, under the skylights that make up most of the roof of the cube. You can see them reflected in this plate.........
Love the toasted almonds.
After supper, back outside for a stroll around the hotel.
The magnolias opened, significantly, on Friday.
This has got to be one of the more photogenic hotels in the world.......
A row of trees between the hotel and the expressway.
Pricker, as we called 'em when I was a kid. Thistle.
More pointy stuff. With twisty stuff.
Grape vine on chain link. Check out the tendril in the upper left.
Loving the natural and man-made twisty stuff. And the rust.
Doesn't this look Chinese? Or Japanese? Especially the way it's blowing in the wind?
When I came back in, and headed for my room, a hotel staffer asked if I was locked out of my room.
Um. Nope.
He told me I should go up on 10 and look at the Chicago skyline.
So I went up on 10, and looked out the windows by the corner cylinders in all four corners.
Did I mention that we were right across the street from O'Hare? From 10, you can see the control tower.
Wasn't that nice of him, to suggest I go have a look? A little gift..........
Last year our room was in the very back, and high enough that we could see the Chicago skyline from the room. It was hazy last year, too, and I don't think I got any pics any better than this one.
Isn't it odd, the way it looks like Chicago rises directly from the woods? Like Oz from the poppy fields?
Back in the room, looking out the window.
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