9/10/11 - 9/11/11 At last, after dodging weather for weeks on Lake Michigan, we made our final crossing from Michigan City, Indiana to Chicago. I was determined not to pay $100/night for a slip but while investigating mooring balls (much less expensive but then you have to pay a water taxi to get ashore), the guy on the phone said "Would you like to stay on the 'wall'?". It was mid priced so I told him we'd take a look. It turned out to be a great move. The tie-up was next to the sidewalk along the harbor, it was walking distance to downtown, and the people watching was off the chart. We arrived on a Saturday afternoon so we were present for the weekly meeting of the "Poor Man's Yacht Club". This assemblage on the "wall" of several boats with their members, a couple of buckets of chicken wings and an unlimited supply of beer was apparently formed as a protest to the membership fee of the two yacht clubs on either side. We walked to the Navy Pier and then came back to the boat and watched a top-notch fireworks display that was in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Nine-Eleven. We got up Sunday morning, walked through Millennium Park to Michigan Avenue, and went to church at the Forth Presbyterian, a cathedral built in 1871. The sanctuary was jaw dropping. The river route to Mobile Alabama begins with a tour of downtown Chicago. We went under 40 old bridges that are so low that we had to fold down the radar mast on Confetti to be able to get under them.
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