Sweet Home Chicago...

After the noise of the KOA Railroad campsite, we decided to check out the Illinois Beach State Park, just north of Chicago. We'd decided to drive up there and to take a drive through "the Windy City"... and that we did. Michigan Avenue runs straight through the centre of town. It looked like a really nice place too, a less busy version of New York. All along the promenade there were things going on, including stages being set up, probably fro the weekends entertainment. We have added it to our list of places to vist again one day.
Anyway, Illinois Beach State Park. Sounds nice. But this has to be the worst state park we have stayed in. If you are ever planning to camp outside Chicago, don't go here! I particularly liked the notice on the beach that said "Beware of the Asbestos" and the startling views of the power station!!
We were allocated an alcohol free pitch... where the logic of having alcohol free pitches stems from, I'll never know as the pitches behind us definately didn't have this restriction. As we went to bed, the Army started playing soldiers a couple of miles down the road, there was explosions, gunfire and all sorts of other wierd noises. Hey ho, all good fun. Then at about 2am a major storm whipped its way through the camp site. Pretty much anybody who was in a tent packed up and went home! We braved it tho and survived :-) This morning we had a quick look around and there were a few trees down, so it had obviously been a pretty big storm.
Anyway, today we'd decided to have a day off as we've been on the road for 2 weeks now. We went to Six Flags :-) What a crackin day! Now, those of you that know me well will remember that some time ago I nearly lost the will to live as I had all of a sudden become scared of roller coasters... well, never fear.... I am cured :-) I seem to have passed it on to Jen tho, who after second coaster nearly honked :-( However we have planned some serious roller coaster therapy as we bought VIP membership to Six Flags, which allows us free entry to all the parks in the USA :-)
So after a few more gentle rides we decided to check out Hurricane Bay, the water park... WOW :-) What a completely cool place. By the time we'd knackered ourselves out it was gone 6pm. A truely awesome day, but we now need another day off to recover from the excitement.
We are staying at another KOA site tonight. As we pulled in we thought "ahhhhh... nice and quiet". A lovely site it is, but unfortunately it's right next door to a live music heavy rock club. Normally I'd be right up for a bit of headbangin', but tonight I'm knackered, so I think I may go over there in a mo and give all those roudy bikers a bit of what-for, don't ya know!