Steven and I both woke up early that first morning. We watched the sun rising up over Lake Michigan together from the hotel room window. It was truly glorious! From an apartment, that would have probably been a million dollar view! 
For breakfast we walked a couple of blocks to a classic Chicago Jewish deli/diner, called the Eleven City Diner. The food was very good, and we greatly enjoyed our breakfast. 
They had this great French toast made with challah bread. Yummy!
Afterwards we walked up Michigan Avenue and did a bit of light shopping. We were actually looking for cheap tourist sweatshirts, as I had packed for mostly hot weather, and that first weekend was pretty chilly. Our destination was the northern end of Grant Park, where they were having the Chicago Blues Festival. 
We sat near one of the little stages for a couple of hours and listened to some truly inspired blues. While we were at one of the little stages, and in the middle of the day, the people playing were still recorded artists, and they were very very very good! We listened the longest to a singer named Shirley Johnson and her blues band. She was very talented and her band was just great.
We would have probably stayed longer, but it was a cool and windy weekend, and we wanted to go back to our room and get warm and rest a bit before heading out to the ball game...
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