First Time (1998)

Here I am being "pedestrian directed" after leaving the Cubs game. You want to make friends with these people.

Kit and I acting like the complete retards that we are.

I'm your ice cream man, babe... stop me when I'm passin' by..." When we couldn't afford our beer tab, we agreed to work for it.

This is the fountain that was in the opening credits for Married With Children.  Kit calls it the "Love and Marriage Fountain." None of us knew its real name.

Here is that world-famous Pablo Picasso statue that is in the middle of downtown. You may have seen Jake and Elwood run by it a lot at the end of The Blues Brothers. It's supposed to be Picasso's Afgan dog or a baboon of some sort. I know very little about art, and this is just another one to be added to "Ricky's List of Pieces of Art That He Doesn't Get."

That's me standing in the middle of the street in front of Murphy's Bleachers, a required watering hole if you're a tourist in Chicago.  Kit told me that the bar is completely run by Chicago cops, and by the looks of the thugs that work there, I believe him.

This was just too funny not to take a picture of. Kit tells me there's even more characters in this city than in New Orleans. I bet I met them all. My favorite is the black woman walking in the middle of downtown Thursday's hustle and bustle, yelling at the top of her lungs, "You like all dem white women, Debbie. You know it's true, don't lie!"

Here is a picture I took of the Sears Tower stretching into the clouds. Kit and Chelle are at the bottom right of the picture giving each other a smooch but it didn't come out so well. I really wanted to go to the observation deck and look over Chicago (the tower is 110 stories tall,) but the line was as long as the building is high. Only one of the two things I wanted to see but didn't on the trip.