Spent 12 hours on the overnight train to Chicago this morning, man.... seriously not going to cope with a 51 hours train to Vancouver in a few days!!! Sooooo unconfortable trying to sleep on the chairs, especially right next to the carriage doors with people going in and out all throught the night! Anyway, once at Chicago station we hailed a cab to take us to our Pentalon Hostel. Not one cab driver knew this place, which was supposed to be 5 mins from the station! Ahhh... i had no other address apart from the name (typical me....so organised!!). The driver took us to a place where he thought it may be...totally the wrong hostel but at least we could use the net to find the proper address!!! Hannah not amused at my lack of preparation! We found the address and found out that the hostel was actually disguised as it was linked with a restaurant and so thats all the cabs new it as! We arrived and checked in ... but what all i can describe as the Greek mafia! Hostel was upstairs, very dated but we had a private room (heaven!) with 2 amazingly comfortable beds in so NO complaining! We hit the city and got straight on the tour bus as we didn't have long to look around the city. We found that Cicago was a beautiful and really interesting city! Buildings we so stylish and the place was really clean and no where near as busy as new york! After freezing our butts off for 2 hours on the bus we hunted shelter and food.... we landed in theatre district and intothe worst american diner you could possibly find, with the waitress (Marilyn wannabe at no less than 70!) just using a grunt as communication. We made a sharpe exit and went to see Wicked at the theatre - bloody brilliant!!!!