Este pasado fin de semana ha sido estupendo!! Mi prima Ana estaba en Chicago para asistir a una conferencia de cancer, horrible enfermedad que necesita mucha investigacion!! Ella es oncologa y presentaba dos posters con su trabajo del hospital de la Paz en Madrid :)
El viernes quedamos con ella en Chicago. Nos encontramos en el edificio Hancock y de alli nos fuimos a cenar a uno de los restaurantes que Thomas habia elegido al azar. El restaurante esta situado en el hotel "Peninsula". El sitio precioso, un hall gigante con muy buena decoracion, buen ambiente, musica jazz en directo y buen servicio. La comida buena, nada del otro mundo, el precio...caro...en nuestra linea.
Esa noche no hicimos mucho mas, el cansancio de la semana se notaba, ademas del jetlag de mi prima unido a que habia estado de guardia dos dias antes.
Last weekend was awesome!! My cousin Ana was in Chicago for a cancer conference. From here I want to encourage and support all kind of research to fight this illness!! She is an oncologist and she was presenting two posters with her work at "La Paz" hospital in Madrid :)
We met her in Chicago on Friday night. We met at the Hancock building and from there we went for dinner to the restaurant "The lobby" at the "Peninsula" hotel. The place was beautiful, a big nice hall with good environment, live jazz music and good service. The food was good, but nothing special, just normal stuff, not like the price. The place ended up being a bit overpriced for what we ate.
We didn't have more plans for the night. We were tired after the week and my cousin was kind of jet lagged and also she had a 24 hour shift two days ealier.
Mi prima y yo en "El lobby". Se le nota el jet lag :)
My cousin and I at "The lobby". The jet lag was present.
Esa noche dormimos en Evanston en nuestra casa y aprovechamos el sabado para enseñarle el lugar, el campus y nuestros respectivos laboratorios. Thomas estuvo enseñandole imagenes de celulas metastaticas de cancer de mama con el microscopio confocal y mas resultados de su investigacion, mucho mas cercana a ella que mis celulas solares :) Despues comimos en una creperia del centro de Evanston y nos fuimos a pasear por la orilla del lago Michigan.
We slept in our house in Evanston and we spent Saturday walking around Evanston downtown and showing my cousin Northwestern campus and our labs. Thomas showed her many images of metastatic breast cancer cells taken with the confocal microscope. He also showed her more of his results, which are closer than my solar cell research :) After that we went for lunch to a new creperie in the center and then we walked along lake Michigan shore.
Fotos en el lago. Pictures at the lake.
El domingo fuimos de nuevo a Chicago una vez que las charlas terminaron. Quedamos de nuevo en el edificio Hancock y de alli nos fuimos a comprar un tipico "smoothie" de "Jamba juice". El "Mango-go-go" esta bastante bueno :)
Queriamos ir al centro comercial "The Water Tower Place" a hacer unas compras y por supuesto, a hacernos las fotos en los lugares mas emblematicos de la ciudad.
We went to Chicago again on Sunday once the conference lectures were finished. We met at the Hancock building again and we started our tour after getting a smoothie from "Jamba juice". The "mango-go-go" one is pretty delicious :)
The plan was going first to the mall in "The Water Tower Place" to do some shopping and then walk around the center to take pictures at the most important places of the city.
Con nuestros "Jamba Juice" en la puerta del edificio Hancock.
With our "Jamba Juice" at the entrance of the Hancock building.
En la Torre del Agua. At the Water Tower.
En uno de los puentes por encima del rio Chicago. In oun of the bridges over the Chicago river.
Millenium Park. Concierto de la orquesta sinfonica de Chicago (seccion joven).
Concert of the Chicago symphonic orchestra (young section).
En el "haba" o "Cloud Gate". At the "bean" or "Cloud Gate".
En una de las fuentes mas originales de Chicago. Picture in one of my Chicago favorite fountains.
Terminamos la noche cenando en "The Gage", un sitio muy recomendable. Creo que alli todo esta bueno :) La cena la acompañamos de vino español y tuvimos suerte de poder sentarnos en la terraza, ya que hacia un tiempo muy agradable.
We ended up the night eating dinner at "The Gage", I highly recommend this place. I think everything there is delicious :) We had Spanish wine and we ate at the terrace thanks to the warm weather of yesterday night.
Ana y Thomas en "The Gage". Ana and Thomas at "The Gage"
Fue un dia fantastico, buen ambiente en Chicago, mejor tiempo y lo mejor de todo, buena compañia. Un fin de semana para recordar. Probablemente sea la unica visita familiar que reciba, asi que habia que aprovecharlo!!
It was a fantastic day, good environment in Chicago, nice weather and the best of all, good company. A weekend to remember. It will be probably the only visit from someone of my family, so we had to celebrate it!!
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