Part 3 of An American Duder and British Duderette in Chicago!
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About a month ago, I wrote two blogs about my first 4 weeks of my summer in Chicago with Wrighteous86, which you can find here and here. It was a very full vacation, so I've put the last 2 weeks in this blog to finish it out. Sorry it took so long, but I just started back up in college, so it's taken me a while to find the time!
Training Beluga Whales
I'm going to college at the moment to hopefully go on to study Zoology in University, and Wrighteous knows how much I love animals, so for our one-year anniversary he gave me a "Trainer For a Day" experience at the Shedd Aquarium. We got to dress up like the workers, go behind the scenes and see how they prepare food, clean and care for the animals, and all kinds of things like that. We got to ask our Zoologist a lot of questions to help my studies, and got some hands on experience with the animals. We went into a private area to see the newborn dolphin calf that was kept from the public and watch it nurse it's mother. Not only did we get to hang out in the Penguin exhibit, where they ran over our feet and nipped at our legs, but we got to train and play with a Beluga Whale calf! 
Man Vs Food
After the aquarium, I took Wrighteous to a place I had seen on Man Vs. Food: Lucky's Overstuffed Sandwiches. He just made it look so good on TV! 
In the end, I didn't quite finish. I got really close though! I think Wrighteous felt a bit sick trying to shove it all down, but in the end, he managed like a champion!
The Magnificent Mile
Later that week, Wrighteous and I went to the Magnificent Mile, a street in Chicago with all of the really posh shops. We spent all day going in and out of clothes shops. I had lots of fun, though I don't think Wrighteous shared my enthusiasm! To reward him for being a good boyfriend, I let him take me to Dave & Buster's for dinner and some games. We played a bit of everything, but it seems I have a knack for arcade games, as I won the Jackpot a few times on some of the spinning light games and got loads of tickets. Wrighteous wasn't quite as lucky on Deal or No Deal...
The Lake House
Wrighteous took a long weekend off work so we could go to his family's lake house at Apple Canyon Lake. The view from the house was gorgeous, and the lake was just down the hill from his back garden.
Near the lake house is an old historical town called Galena, and we went up and down the roads checking out the antique shops and nice restaurants and food shops in the neighborhood. It was cool seeing what America looked like 100 years ago. It reminded me a bit of the town at the end of Red Dead Redemption actually.
Busting Myths
Our trip was winding down, and I was getting ready to go home, but we had one last thing on our agenda: the Museum of Science and Industry. There was a Mythbusters exhibit going on: I looked for any sign of Will and Norm, but sadly they were nowhere to be found. 
At the end of the day, we decided to pop in the MythBusters exhibit. It was fun trying out all the Myths they had there, like pulling a sheet off of a table without breaking dishes, and getting dressed as a superhero in a phone booth. The end of the exhibit had a live stage show to see if it was possible to dodge a bullet (though they replaced the bullet with a paintball). They needed volunteers, so Wrighteous, a girl, and myself were selected to test our reflexes. Wrighteous was too slow for me and the girl and had to sit back down, and in the end, my reflexes were the best; shows why I was so good in the arcade.
Wrapping Up
Those are just the highlights of the amazing time I had for my first visit to America. I was so sad that I had to leave the States and Wrighteous, but school was starting up soon. I had so much fun and I can't wait to come back! Wrighteous says we might go to San Francisco for a week next summer, maybe we'll even bump into Giant Bomb while we're there! This winter he'll be visiting me in the UK for a few weeks, and we'll be staying in Spain for a while during that time, and I already can't wait to see him again. I hope you enjoyed reading about my first trip to America, and seeing how well this Giant Bomb relationship is doing. I want to thank our fellow GBers that are, or have been in long distance relationships, for all their help and advice. Giant Bomb is a website about love. Thanks everyone! 