Field Museum

Today we loaded up the kids in the Buick and headed to the Field Museum. We had tickets to see the chocolate exhibit (last day!) and the whales exhibit. Even though both exhibits had signs posted to prohibit photography, one couple asked me to take their photo at the end of the chocolate exhibit. They were standing on either end of a huge chocolate box mounted on a wall. "I know you're not supposed to take pictures in here, but this is really neat," he said. He handed me his iPhone and I took a photo though the first one I took was a video. Oops - he had the setting wrong. I tried again and was successful. After that, other people were lining up for their turn to get their own pictures. Security didn't stop anyone so it either wasn't a big deal or they were letting it slide because it's the exhibit's last day.

Here's a picture of the museum's Grand Hall taken from the second floor. You can see Sue, the mastadons and the totem poles. The whale in the background is promoting the whale exhibit.

After the museum, we drove around a bit in Chicago. It was a beautiful, clear day. Not as warm as yesterday, but mid-40s in January is still good. Here's the Sears ... er, Willis Tower view from the museum campus:

And Michigan Avenue:

We had no desire to see this Marilyn Monroe sculpture, but we drove right past it. Neither Andy nor I knew where it was located. We're not sure the purpose of it, but here it is. Hopefully, it won't be around too long.

We had an early dinner at Pizzeria Due - a large half cheese, half pepperoni and sausage. Mmmm. I even have a few leftovers.

After leaving the restaurant, we walked around Chicago a bit more. We stopped for a while in front of the Channel 7 news studio. One of their weekend anchors was sitting at the news desk, but he wasn't on air. The kids wanted to wait around until a live news broadcast because they show the people watching outside on TV. If we did that, I think we would have been there till 10:30. Not my idea of a fun night.