This post was greatly delayed due to complications (when we returned home) with our beloved pug Toby and general craziness of school life right now (March and April are always my busiest months). SO, without further ado...the second half of our trip to Chicago.
We started out our day at The Field Museum. We could have spent a TON more time here as they had so many cool exhibits. I decided to take a picture of the first time we found from each persons country (for the girls) or state (for George and I). So, Australia (Amy), Germany (Daniela), Nebraska (George's home state) and South Dakota (my home state).
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| Precious Opal from Australia |
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| A woodcut depicting the fall of the Ensisheim meteorite in Germany. |
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| Rhino bones from Nebraska |
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| "Sue" the most complete T-rex ever found from South Dakota |
I think I win for coolest display from our countries/states. It was a lot of fun looking at awesome artifacts from around the world and learning more about them. We walked to Shedd Aquarium after we finished at the museum. It was CROWDED at the aquarium! We didn't get a lot of pictures there due to the volume of people but they had some neat exhibits. My favorites were the dolphins and the penguins!
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| Watching the dolphins swim |
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| Just keep swimming, just keep swimming... |
We drove to Fremont, NE that evening and returned home on Sunday. It was a quick tour of Chicago, but a great one! I think we were all glad we went and took a small vacation from life and school here. Tonight George and the girls are out enjoying the foot of snow we received yesterday and I am cuddling our poor little pug Toby and listening to Lola bark at the crew outside. Pictures of a snowman (or something like that) will be coming soon. Happy Sunday night!
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