The Magic of 3

I was trying to figure out a title for today's post and realized something about the number 3~
Three of us decided to go downtown Chicago and our goal was to visit an address: 1447. That's when I realized that 1 from 4 =3; and 4 from 7 = 3.
I don't know what magic there was for the rest of the day as nothing 'different' occurred but I wanted to share some sights with you. Not knowing what to call this post, it's just called the Magic of 3~even though you only see one or two of us( there was no place to hold my mini tripod).
As we started out our adventure on a Chicago "L"........
We quickly took some crazy pics before the L filed up. This one was a tame picture. We got off the L at Clark and Division and walked to our destination. It's a place we haven't been to in.....28 years, maybe?

We saw so many old photos and so many that reminded us of the days when we sat in long, long meetings and I particularly focused on the old photos of past presidents; the first one from 1912- I see another '3 in there! But I did not capture any of the history we reminisced.
Our next stop was to visit a friend who lives 1/2 a block away. Oh mg, what they go through for security! They used to live in the city, moved to the burbs and are back in the city- but the SECURITY~
From there we took a nice long walk past our previous apartment buildings where we lived back in the day....1400....1360....1150...and talked about the 'personality' each building, in between, held.
We were getting quite hungry so stopped for lunch in Water Tower Park- I don't know if that's what it is called but that's what we call it! Never had park benches back in the day but what a wonderful, quiet respite! We talked about how quiet it was in there. I said, it was because there weren't any sirens howling. Uh, oh, we finally got a siren or 3. Oh! 3!!!


And of course, no lunch is complete without a bloody Mary and freshly baked cookies! We had some protein too.




Time to move on~
Our next stop was a clothing store- so rude! One of was dressed to the nines, ok, maybe 2 of us were dressed to the nines. Staff was SO RUDE! ( time to write a letter to management!) Not worth it. But we planned to visit Garrett's Popcorn and Van Cleef where another good ol dear friend works. Our feet were killing us and we needed to head back to the 'L'. We didn't want to take a cab because we didn't want to miss any windows!
And then, had to stop in at Neiman's- poddy time and time to sniff new scents!
But first, we had to check out some of the clothing items on display- they were different. Even for a city person....






On to find the 'L'.....

And what to our wondering eyes did appear, but another beautiful cafe called: Whisper!
The ice creams~ TOO DIE FOR! PRESENTATION! My photos couldn't quite capture the display- and I have a reason~



I spoke to some guy with a waiter's hat and chef coat and apron. Not the originator of the ice creams because this guy introduced me to the young man who created the beautiful presentations. I remarked that I wanted to take a picture of these for my food blog. Well, the creep had me so shaken, the images are not great. He wanted me to pay for the photos I took. I said, puhlease, we are not in Morocco.
If you are visiting Chicago, and are in this neighborhood, please visit this beautiful cafe. It is such a good use of a small strip that was always ugly. It's between Rush ( Street of Dreams) street and State street. It looks triangular. The guy who made all the ice creams- he's a sweetie. Ignore the waiter. Well, if you want to take a picture, ignore him.