Chicago > Senior Trip > Entertainment Tour
Day 1: Start your senior class adventure in Chicago with a visit to Chicago's Skydeck. The 103rd floor of Willis Tower is home to this amazing viewing structure. The glass viewing box extends from the building and offers some great photos you won’t be able to stage anywhere else! The elevator ride to the top prepares your student travel group for what’s ahead with multimedia fed information on one of the fastest rides available on the planet! Taking a stroll around the Loop’s Millennium Park will offer your group the opportunity to visit the Cloud Gate and the Crown Fountain. Crown Fountain is particularly interesting as it actually displays videos of Chicago residents’ faces complete with a fountain emerging from their mouths, all part of the gargoyle-esque inspiration behind this 50 foot tall fountain. Comedy Sportz Entertainment baits blue against red on stage for your group’s entertainment. It is not sports jokes, it's improvisational comedy played like a sport where two teams "battle" for laughs. There's even a referee but you, the audience, award the crown for most comical team!
Day 2: Visit the Shedd Aquarium to see all the aquatic life it houses. There are around 32,500 creatures to visit on this tour! With the largest shark exhibit in the country your group can look forward to the most diverse collection on the continent along with an excellent 4D theater, hands on ray and penguin action, perplexing jellyfish, even a recreated coral reef! Otters, iguanas, anacondas, and sea lions, the menu of excitement is unending! Take a Chicago River Cruise for an alternate view of the windy city’s architecture. Listen to the history behind some of the most iconic buildings you’ve only seen from the street as you drift up and down the Chicago River. Spend some time shopping on the Magnificent Mile where the categories range from LEGOs to luxurious garments! Grab a gourmet snack at Candyality for yourselves then pick one up for the pooches at Tails in the City. This downtown hub of activity buzzes with live entertainment, dancing, art, museums and more with 460 stores, 275 restaurants, 60 hotels and still growing! This is a great place for your students to pick up some reminders of this great trip!
Day 3: Navy Pier beckons from the top of its 15 story tall ferris wheel! What student wouldn't want to ride this on their senior class trip. Start a tradition including the IMAX Theatre, Cirque Shanghai performance, dinner cruise, English themed theater, larger than life art sculptures, hot wings, even the opportunity to show off your own abilities as contortionists and jugglers! Check out all the animals at the Brookfield Zoo to take advantage of the opportunity to mingle with pachyderms and polar bears, there is even an 80 year old cockatoo named Cookie! Ride all day on the Motor Safari tram to dolphin dancing, dinosaurs, a butterfly mecca and animals you’ve surely never seen before like the binturong and caracal! Fasten on your chain mail for the Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament! An 11th century themed castle houses jousting knights, show horses, six kinds of weapons, a Royal Court and oven roasted chicken or the vegetarian option! Enjoy your feast from the best seat in the house, which happens to be any seat, as you gulp down dragon’s blood (tomato bisque) while the tournament commences!