Chapter One pg 2 The End?
Saturday Afternoon: After meetings
all morning, a quick lunch in one of the hotel's restaurants at noon, I was off
to the afternoon meeting. I sat in one of the chairs and was excited when
I looked out of the window and saw the Chicago River and...the lake
front... and Navy Pier!!! This is awesome I thought, we'll have to
take some pictures later this afternoon or tonight, after the dinner.
Saturday Night: After meetings all day, and the
formal dinner and awards ceremony that night, and even though we were exhausted,
we started to talk about this Christmas Ship again, I mentioned that I could see
Navy Pier from the afternoon meeting room, so we decided to snoop around a bit
more. the hotel. We decided to investigate.
Armed with a digital camcorder
and a digital camera,
we found a window at the end of a hallway on our floor,
peered out, and what, to our surprise, did we see?
Yes, we saw, in the dark, what appeared to be a
U.S. Coast Guard ship, docked securely at Navy Pier. Could this be the
Christmas Tree Ship we wondered? We took pictures of the night lights and
cityscapes and some of this mysterious ship too.
According to the news story, as we remembered it,
the trees were to be dispensed to pre-selected recipients on Saturday. We
wondered if this "Christmas Tree Ship" would still be at Navy Pier on Sunday,
after we checked out of hotel. We wondered and hoped, and... of course,
went on the web and did some research about this "Christmas Tree Ship" story.
I'll tell you what I discovered in a few pages, but 1st, back to my story.
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