Daycation

Last week, a friend and I took a little daycation to Chinatown. We met at Macy’s and decided to take the train there and the water taxi back.

The building on the left in the picture had some great architectural details, including a peacock that I just had to snap a picture of. It made me kind of sad that my peacock fans are not hanging up here in Chicago.

We ate at a restaurant on the other side of the street, so I took a picture of the peacock building from there. The peacock was on the side of one of the doorways.

After lunch and a few souvenir shop stops, we walked up to Ping Tom Memorial Park to take the water taxi up the river to the Wrigley Building.

Since it was a Daycation, I was glad to find the perfect souvenir.

I only expected there to be three dolls, but when I got down to the third doll, I could hear that there was another one inside. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it open, so I decided to put it in the freezer to try to shrink the wood a bit. Even after an hour or so, it didn’t open, so I put it back in. When my husband took it out and got it open a few hours later, he started laughing because he could hear that there was another one inside doll number four. He couldn’t get that one open either, and at first, we thought we’d put it back in the freezer but I did some googling and found out about the rolling method – putting both hands on top of the doll and gently rolling it. That worked, and I was pretty surprised when he brought me the fifth doll as it had no face –  only a single flower. For now, they’re sitting in front of the other Matroyskas, so we can admire them for a while before they nest together again.