Camera lights action!!

Okay now we've all arrived.  Laurinda and I came from Bristol via Paris, others via London Heathrow and/or  Amsterdam .... Tonight we are all meeting up at Giocos restaurant on the south loop and then we have one day to recover from everything and get into gear before heading down to Urbana early Wednesday morning.
I am going to spend tomorrow in the Art Institute 
a) because it is wonderful and
b) because the Art Institute has GREAT air conditioning and it is 92 degrees (F) here and incredibly humid (and you think you're having a heat wave back in the UK...huh!!)
Others who have not been here before will probably take a river trip to see all the fabulous architecture and/or wonder around looking at all the public art.

When I blogged last year I uploaded loads of pictures of the magnificent Chicago skyline (see archive below), so I thought I'd ring the changes this year with "skyscraper planets' as my A level art student daughter, Esther,  has been teaching me how to make them with photoshop. Mine are not as good as hers, but they are not bad!!