Downtown Chicago and the Field Museum
Today was very tiring but a wonderful day as well. After getting up and eating a great french toast breakfast, we got ready, piled in the van, and drove to downtown Chicago. We went to the Field Museum of Natural History. We are members there (purchased a family membership this year) and thought it would be a fun thing to do.
We parked (as we usually do) under Soldier Field where the Chicago Bears football team plays. Below is a picture of that as well. About 61,000 people can fit in this stadium. That’s not very big considering Carmen said that some of the stadiums in Spain can fit between 80,000 to 100,000 fans! 🙂
We walked a LOT and saw a lot of things, from Egyptian mummies, many wild animals, dinosaurs (the most famous being Sue, the T-Rex that was discovered in the Dakotas and where the whole head is in tact), and much more. One of the favorite parts of the museum we went to was the underground adventure. This took you underground and into the world of a bug.
Here are a couple more pictures from the museum I thought would be good to include as well…
Angela also took Ben and Zach and played in a family area that they absolutely loved while the girls and I walked around and saw more of the museum. After doing this, we were dead tired and very hungry, so we ate burgers and chicken nuggets at McDonald’s there in the museum. After that we were all very full and happy! 🙂
We then left the museum and walked up and down the part of the Chicago lakefront near the museum. It was a perfect day… not too hot, and not too cold. We enjoyed taking a LOT of pictures, enjoying the day, and getting some exercise.
After our long walk, we were dead tired and had sore feet (as you can tell by the kids soaking their feet in a fountain near the Shedd Aquarium. It felt good to get hot feet cold. 🙂 After soaking for awhile, we walked back to the car for the drive home. The traffic was terrible (due to an accident) and it took over 2 hours to get home (normally about 1 hour). Everyone slept well during the drive (except me of course)! 🙂
When we got back home, Carmen asked me if we could go shopping and get some flowers for Angela. She wanted to surprise her and thank her for everything she has done over the past month. I gladly said yes, so off we went again. Brittany came with and helped pick out a dozen roses. Carmen brought them back home, wrote a note to Angela, and gave them to her. Angela definitely was surprised and very happy. She loves flowers!
The rest of the evening was spent playing Wii, watching movies, eating Cheetos, popcorn, and ice cream with hot fudge along with drinking mass quantities of strawberry lemonade! Angela and I watched a movie upstairs, while the girls played Wii and watched one of the Harry Potter movies downstairs. At about 11pm, we all finished up and went to bed very tired, but very happy!
