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 ==== An old friend ====
 
-One dayh my old friend DaSnake showed up on IRC and told me he's
+A few days ago, my old friend DaSnake appeared on IRC and told me he's
 was an intern at FermiLab National Accelerator, near ChicagoCity.
 I told him I was at OneLaptopPerChild, in CambridgeCity.
 
@@ -14,18 +14,37 @@ UsAirways plane to ChicagoOHare through Philadelphia.
 
 ==== Trip To Fermilab ====
 
-Refer to the [[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/map/site.html | Fermilab map]]
-My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab "village", surrounded by
+Refer to the [[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/map/site.html | Fermilab map]].
+My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab village, which is
+surrounded by several little lakes with gooses, buffalo and various other
+animals.  Indeed, a very pretty natural park.
 
-On Saturday, I took a guided site tour, starting from the museum.  They
-have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts and really working
-equipment such as scintillators and Geiger's counters.
+http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/94-0470-09.jpg
 
-Then... WAH!  They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!
+On Saturday, I took a bike and rode on the bike path to the main
+laboratory buildings.  I took a guided site tour, starting from the
+museum.  They have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts
+and really working equipment such as scintillators and Geiger's counters.
+
+Then we visited the Wilson Hall, a 16 floors building shaped like Goldrake's
+and Mazinger's atomic base.
+
+http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/99-0005-04.jpg
 
+Then... WAH!  They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!
 The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration
 that produces protons for the MainInjector.  It was like entering an old
-science fiction movie!
+science fiction movie.  You know, like Frankenstein or Buck Rogers: with giant
+Tesla generators, panels with flashing lights and indicators...Buck Rogers
+The continuous buzz reminded us that the proton beam was shooting through
+this long corridor next to me.
+
+http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/93-0073.jpg
+
+Finally, we visited the MainControlRoom, from which they run the whole thing.
+The room looks like the bridge of an old starship, surrounded by monitors,
+with a bigger chair in the middle for the captain.
+
 
 FermiLab is no doubt the most amazing place in the world:
 
@@ -34,3 +53,15 @@ FermiLab is no doubt the most amazing place in the world:
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tevatron
 
 To beat this place, next time I shall visit the NCC-1701A!
+
+
+==== Chicago By Night ====
+
+Yesterday we went to ChicagoCity's downtown.  Wow... I was told the skyline was really
+magnificent, but the real thing exceeded all my expectations.
+
+http://allthingsgo.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/images-chicago-2005-chicago-by-night-2-700x700.jpg
+
+We walked around a little, then went up the
+[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center | John Hancock Center]],
+the third tallest skyscraper, for a breathtaking view of the whole city by night.