Chicago Day 5

Sorry I've been so slow getting the last couple days from the trip posted, but I'm finally home and life should be "normal" for the next couple of days so I'll try to get everything up!!

DAY 5!!

Wednesday in Chicago brought us to the Field Museum and then Navy Pier

The museum was a beautiful building with all sorts of interesting exhibits.

There was a Genghis Khan exhibit, a whole section on Egypt and mummies and tombs, there was an underground thing where we were "shrunk" and got to go underground and see how bugs and plants live, there were even some Chinese shadow figures that I was excited to see!!  I studied this stuff in college so I always get excited to see it :)

The big exhibit was the dinosaurs!! Well the fossils anyway!! When I was a kid I thought it would be the coolest job to be a paleontologist and dig up dinosaur bones (I still think it would be fun). What was cool about this exhibit is that the have a T-Rex that is the most complete skeleton in the world!! Something like 95% of the original bones had been preserved. What was sort of funny about this T-Rex was that its name was Sue!! (I was traveling with Sue :) )

 (Even got to see the 3-D show all about it!!)

^^ Sue ^^

When we left the museum we headed over to the Navy Pier where we would complete the list of "things to do" that I had.

The giant Ferris where was a must!! I'm not usually a fan of them but this one I had to try!!

It's 15 stories tall and actually 100' shorter then the World's Fair wheel that it's modeled after!!

I know they said not to throw anything off, but I figured bubbles would be ok ;)

The view was pretty amazing!!

We had dinner at Margaritaville (had to add the Chicago glass to the collection!!),

then did some walking around.  We found a little mall area and did some shopping. On the second story of the little mall I caught sight of some palm trees and had to check it out.  Turns out there was a very nice garden up there!!

We came across a stained glass window museum, which I had read about when I was checking out things to do on the Pier. The glass was very beautiful

There was a live band playing at the beer garden outside called 7th Heaven, they did a lot of covers of popular pop songs and a few of their own songs, they were really good so we listened for a while.

After that we got to watch the sun set over the city and the city lights turn on while we waited for the Wednesday night fireworks show

Cheers!!

Chicago Day 4

It was another busy day!!

 We started off heading into the city again, there was a little more traffic and some of the roads were closed off because of the Taste Of Chicago that the city is getting ready for, but we made it to the Shedd Aquarium!!

There were all kinds of fun things going on at the aquarium!!

There was a big jelly fish exhibit going on that was neat to see, all kinds of different jellies and lots of facts about them

When I was looking up the aquarium before the trip I found out they had dolphins there!! I was so excited!! Mystic used to have dolphins and they're my favorite so I couldn't wait to see them. What made it even more exciting, we found out when we got there that a baby boy dolphin had just been born at the end of May!!

They were so cute swimming and playing together :)

We got tickets to the aquadic show through the City Pass. The setting for their show is beautiful!! Lots of rocks to give it a natural look, a huge pool, and a big round window that looked out at the lake.

I was hoping for a dolphin show but we got to see the belugas instead

It was a nice show :)

We also got tickets to a 4D show, we chose the Ice Age 3 show which was funny!!

Then we had the rest of the exhibits to look through!!

 At the sting rays they would swim right under your feet

 This turtle was huge!!

 They had these cute monkeys, this guys was so tiny!!

Once we were done walking around the aquarium we decided to head down to Millenium Park.

Since it was only about a mile, according to the GPS on my phone, we decided to walk.  It wasn't a bad walk, but we did get detoured around a park. One of the main roads was blocked off for the Taste Of Chicago and they also fenced off the park so we had to walk all the way around to get in . . . then we almost couldn't get out!! We did manage to get there to check out the sights!!

We saw the Buckingham Fountain in the park first:

Then we got the Millenium Park

Something about finally making it to "The Bean" made me feel like I was officially in Chicago :)

There was some other art in the park like the fountain

We walked back and spent a little time relaxing by the lake

So grateful for beautiful weather and wonderful friends!!

Day 5 will be up soon about our adventures at the Fields Museum and Navy Pier!!

Cheers