Hippo and Tom at the Buckingham Fountain - Grant Park - image 1 of 37

Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park - image 2 of 37

One of the Sea Horse - the 4 Sea Horses symbolize the 4 great lake states and the fountain represents Lake Michigan - image 3 of 37

Chicago great skyline with Willis (formerly Sears) Tower on the far left - image 4 of 37

Aon Center (second from the left) and 2 Prudential Plaza (far left) - image 5 of37

Close-up of Buckingham Fountain with one of the 4 Sea Horses - image 6 of 37

Smurfit-Stone Building (center) with the Trump Tower and Prudential Building on the right - image 7 of 37

The Bean !!! image 8 of 37

The Bean reflecting the Prudential Buildings - image 9 of 37

The Bean reflecting the Chicago skyline - image 10 of 37

Dinosaur in Millennium Park - image 11 of 37

The video fountain displaying ordinary Chicagoans in Millennium Park - image 12 of 37

The video fountain spouting water - image 13 of 37

Chicago building architecture - image 14 of 37

Smurfit-Stone building - image 15 of 37

Magnificent Chicago building architecture - image 16 of 37

Top of the Chicago Tribune building - image 17 of 37

Tom asked me to take the picture of the naked butt - image 18 of 37

Buildings by the Michigan Avenue Bridge - image 19 of 37

Wrigley Chewing Gum building with the Trump Tower behind it
- image 20 of 37

The Wrigley building looks so thin! - image 21 of 37

Hippo and Tom with Lamassu at the Oriental Institute - image 22 of 37

Hippo and beloved Lamassu - image 23 of 37

Handsome face - image 24 of 37

Look at those carefully groomed golden locks! - image 25 of 37

Colossal head of a bull, made of polished black limestone, that once guarded the entrance to the Hundred-Column Hall in Persepolis - image 26 of 37

Tom in front of the Stone reliefs from the throneroom of the palace of Assyrian king Sargon II in Khorsabad - image 27 of 37

Stone relief from the throneroom of the palace of Assyrian king Sargon II in Khorsabad - image 28 of 37

Stone relief from the throneroom of the palace of Assyrian
king Sargon II in Khorsabad - image 29 of 37

Lamassu - human-headed winged bull from the throneroom facade in the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II (721-705 BCE) in Khorsabad - image 30 of 37

One of the Striding Lions of Babylon, stone relief on the side of the 'Processional Way' that led out of the city through the massive Ishtar Gate in ancient Babylon (604-562 BCE) - image 31 of 37

Another Striding Lion of Babylon - image 32 of 37

Tom and Tut - image 33 of 37

Eckhart Hall in the University of Chicago - image 34 of 37

Tom at Medici's - image 35 of 37

Hippo at Medici's - image 36 of 37

The Chicago Theater - image 37 of 37