Rambling Observations of the
2006 NCS Reuben Award Weekend
May 26 - 30, 2006

In the middle of Millennium Park, in the heart of Chicago,
there sets a giant, chrome...

...bean.

Sure, they SAY it's a sculpture called "Cloud Gate" on the AT&T Plaza of Millennium Park but just look at the damn thing! It's a giant bean!
 

OK, I admit it. I found this giant chrome bean to be just too cool. If the accordion playin' frog girl would marry me I think we'd honeymoon here. I bet you're no longer questioning why I'm still single...

Inside the bean. It's a wet dream come true for any obsessive / compulsive with a bottle of Windex and all the free time in the world on their very clean hands.

Looking up into the center of the bean. It's what I like to call "the Bean Rotunda". Kelley counted her own reflection sixteen times. Thank God I have better things to do with MY time...

...such as taking a picture of Kelley
counting her reflection sixteen times!

Kelley & I pose for a self-portrait reflected off of the surface of the giant Chicago Bean. Sadly, our reflections are not distorted. We really do look like this.

Be honest... does this bean make Chicago look fat?