St. Patrick's Day & Mythbusters

Today we took the kids into Chicago for a family day. We ate a late lunch at Pizzeria Due. Since it was St. Patrick's Day, there were a lot of people downtown, everyone dressed in green. We saw some pretty outrageous outfits! Of course, we had to walk over the Chciago River and see it dyed green. It's always green, but they add dye to it on St. Patrick's Day to make it even more green. We also walked through Daley Plaza where they dyed the fountain there green.

Perhaps the weirdest moment of the day was meeting the German exchange student E goes to school with. We were laughing about meeting a German student who's in E's Japanese class on a street in crowded Chicago on St. Patrick's Day. What a multicultural experience.

After lunch, we stopped in Andy's office (we parked the car in his garage) for a bathroom break. He didn't know the code to get into the women's restroom, so we went in the men's. Here's B doing one of his favorite tricks - using soap to make huge bubbles. At least he uses soap!

Here's L on the drive to the museum - wearing sunglasses, sticking her head out the window and singing along to the radio. She looked like a rock star.

And the highlight of the day:

After lunch, we went to the Museum of Science and Industry for a members' viewing of the new Mythbusters exhibit. E is a huge fan of the show and the exhibit had props from the show and several experiments to try. Andy and I did the "do you get wetter walking or running through the rain?" experiment. We both got pretty wet. The museum put a special dye in the rainwater so when you stand in front of a black light you can see where you got wet. That part freaked L out a bit.