Chicago Trip: Scary Elevators

Intro to blog

On Saturday, October 14th Chicago, Illinois warmly welcomed three tour buses filled with eager MSU students. Ok, well maybe Chicago did't really "warmly" welcome us and maybe the students weren't so "eager" either, at least not with the early morning wakeup call the day before the Michigan Michigan State game and a long bus ride. But either way, we had arrived in Chicago. I have been to downtown Chicago numerous times before this trip but never experienced it the way I did on this class trip. I have always done the normal touristy things before like, visit Navy Pier, shop all of the famous stores, take pictures in "The Bean" and all the other exciting famous Chicago tourist attractions. But, one thing that I had never experienced, beside "The Bean," was the artistic side of Chicago. Every venue that we visited was a new and exciting adventure to me We started off in The Chicago Art Museum, went to the City Space Gallery, The Fine Arts Building, the MOCP Museum of Contemporary Photography, Arts and Artisans American Gallery, Blick, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Illinois Institute of Arts, and Millennium Park. What a busy day it was!

So apparently, the only way to get to the top floor of the Fine Arts Building is to use the elevator. (This is a lie) Some guy told us that to get us into the creepy elevator. These elevators were probably the first made elevators ever. We walk into it and there is a guy who runs the elevator! I have never seen that before! He then closed the gates and started to take us up ten floors! We could see each floor as it passed! It was so crazy! But at the same time, so sickening. The picture I got of the elevator is really blurry but I had to put it up as proof that I rode the scariest elevator ever!