Chicago Art Institute

Since Ai was sick Tuesday and missed her field trip to the Art Institute, we decided tonight would be a good night to take her there. B decided to stay home, play on his computer and eat Campbell's Mega Noodle Soup. No culture for him! Thursdays are free nights for Illinois residents and fortunately they only checked my ID so we all got in free - yea! We went down after Andy got home from work so we weren't there till a little after 6:30 p.m. The museum was open until 8 p.m. so we had to hustle. We were able to see the Picasso exhibit which was awesome. Here the girls are in front of a model Chicago Picasso sculpture:

According to the Institute's web page, "A century ago, in 1913, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first art museum in the country to present the work of a young Spaniard who would become the preeminent artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso." L wanted me to take a picture of her by this Picasso, The Old Guitarist, because she said she recognized it from art class.

We also saw a few of the museum's more famous paintings and toured the Japanese art area.In the miniature room exhibit, we saw a Japanese house interior. Ai said it looks similar to her house. Pretty neat.

Ai took lots of pictures of the few things we were able to see:

After the museum closed we stopped at a McDonald's downtown to get a quick dinner. Can't send Ai home without some American McDonald's food, can we?