The Cooper's: Team America - 6 Year Reunion!

On Thursday, Aug. 4th the girls of 'Team America' gathered in Chicago to celebrate our 6 year anniversary of our trip to New Zealand/Australia. The 4 of us met when we participated in a graduate school course geared toward learning about a different cultures and teaching in schools in New Zealand and Australia. We had the time of our lives on that trip and in those 4 weeks became great friends. We try to get together a few times a year to reminisce and spend time together. These girls are true friends and are an absolute BLAST to be around!!!!

Bridgette and Jodie - We are on the train headed into the city of Chicago.

Dawn and me also on the train!

The first thing we saw as we got out of the train.

We walked to Millennium Park when we got off the train. There are many sculptures and architectural pieces around the park. This one in particular is made from glass bricks and has random faces displayed on it throughout the day. It also has water pouring down each side and as you can see there were kids and adults running and jumping in the water!

The back side of the glass column.

The other column (there were 2). Every 5 minutes or so the faces look like they are blowing air out of their mouths and then a steady stream of water comes out of their mouths like a waterfall.

Then we walked over to the 'bean' sculpture. It is one of the coolest things I have ever seen!

Can you see me and Dawn? We are standing about a football's length away from the bean, but I zoomed in the camera and it looks like we are really close to it.

We're in this one too! Can you see us?

Same photo as above, but zoomed in.

I walked under the bean to get this photo.

I had to get a picture on the other side so you could see the skyline of the city along with the beautiful early evening sky. I loved this place and want to go back soon!