Chicago

We arrived to Chicago yesterday afternoon and everything went extremely well. We had a nice flight and at the airport it only took us 30 minutes with immigration control and to pick up our luggage. Then we took the CTA blue line in to downtown Chicago and checked in to our hotel, Comfort Inn, which was a very pleasant surprise even though it was the cheapest one we could find in downtown. Very nice rooms and the hotel is right in the middle of everything, on one of the main shopping streets.
We spent the afternoon walking around the Magnificent Mile (Michigan Avenue) and found some things to buy already our first day here :) We had dinner at Chili's (Mexican restaurant) in the evening and fell asleep early since we had been up for about 40 hours or so.
Today we are gonna walk around south of the Chicago River and then take the train at 2.20 pm. We are gonna spend the next 48 hours on that train so next time I'll be able to update here is when we get to my relatives in Turlock Saturday evening.