Chicago pt 2: Saturday and Sunday

Saturday morning began with brunch at a nice place called The Dawson. After a delicious meal, we headed for the Art Institute of Chicago.

It was rainy and foggy. 

Some of the buildings disappeared in the fog!

The first place we explored was the Impressionist area.

Chrysanthemums by Renoir.

Degas Dancer!

A Van Gogh self-portrait.

There was a whole room of Monet, including some of his water lilies and haystacks!

Next we headed to European pre-impressionist art.

The grandiose staircase.

Tessie and I had some photography fun.

Seurat's Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte

There were several El Greco paintings, too.

This was a Mexican painting called The Divine Sheperdess--La Divina Pastora.

The famous "Arrangement in Gray and Black," or Whistler's Mother, was back in Chicago after being away on exhibit. 

Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks."

More Degas dancers!

Mary Cassat

Patrick also took some of the two of us.

Georgia O'Keefe

Edward Munch, of "the Scream" fame

Degas

After finishing at the Art Institute, we went across the street to an architecture place where there is a scale model of downtown Chicago. We had fun looking at the places we had been and finding certain buildings.

For the rest of the afternoon we did some shopping until dinner, which was at a fancy French-Vietnamese Fusion restaurant. 

Sunday morning we skipped brunch and had breakfast at home instead, before going to Mass at St. John Cantius. It was a gorgeous Mass, the Novus Ordo in Latin, and the choir sang a baroque Mass for the music. 

Then we walked a couple of blocks to a coffee shop...

...then we took a cab to a delicious Irish ice cream place, because why not.

Our flight was supposed to be at 4pm, so we headed to the airport. (It was actually delayed 1.5 hours because the plane had been struck by lightning, but at least we were on time.)

It was an amazing weekend which we'll never forget! Thank you, Patrick!!

Some happy daffodils awaited us at home.