Lincoln Park

These are some last few snapshots from our day in Chicago.

Again, our friend MD was the ultimate host.  He was the sweetest. The sweetest.

We spent the remainder of the day in Lincoln Park walking around, having lunch at a Hawaiian restaurant, and nibbling on cupcakes afterwards.

We can't wait to go back this spring and hopefully stay for a whole weekend!

 

The Field Museum II

Dinosaurs! Egyptians! More Dinosaurs!

That is exactly what we encountered on the rest of our tour through the museum.  They have quite the plethora of dinosaurs.  And when we weren't looking at dinosaurs, we were being dinosaurs in the gift shop with their dino merchandise. See those awesome teradactyl wings?

 

We also spent a large chunk of time in the ancient egyptian section.  This was for my own needs, so a big thanks to Becca and MD for their patience.  (They amused themselves by trying out "egyptian" pronunciations of the displays.  Linguistic professionals. ;) ) 

The Field Museum

This post could also have been titled "too many pictures with Sue" and rightly so.  If you're not familiar with the Field Museum or with archaeology, Sue is that big T-rex that made her way into quite a few of our photos from today.

 

Becca and I took a day on Saturday to go to Chicago.  I had some academic needs that required a trip to the Field Museum, so with our friend MD as our city guide we took off.  I am so thankful that Becca and MD accompanied me on this excursion.  They were so patient as I roamed around the Egypt and ancient civilization sections of the museum.

 

It has been years since I have been to any of the Chicago museums, so it was fun going back.  But really I would imagine doing anything with those two would be fun.

P.S. When I've been uploading pictures lately they seem to be losing some of their quality.  Sorry about that. :(

Zoo lights

Brookfield Zoo magically lit up at around 4.  We had walked the entire vicinity at this point so we decided to take a ride on the Jingle Bell Tram (normally the Motor Safari).  While waiting in line for tickets, a woman came up to us, handed us four tickets and said, "Merry Christmas!" 

A holiday miracle? I think so!

Around Roosevelt Fountain the corporation trees "danced" to music with synchronized lights.

We got off the tram to see a laser show at 5:30.

After the laser show, we walked around for a little bit more before calling it a day.  Overall, the lights were beautiful!  As Adele said while on the tram, "This is such a holiday thing to do."  That it was.  We had a jam-packed day!

It's all happening at the zoo

Today I took a small trip with Becca and Adele to Brookfield Zoo to see zoo lights.  We made a day of it and got there early so we could tour and see the animals in daylight as well as the lights later on.

The camel was the first to greet us.

African wild dog and giraffe

Adele and a friend (he was from the New York World's Fair impressively enough.)

My favorite the penguins

You can't tell from this picture, but this little monkey resembled a kitten!  We wanted to hold him!

Rafiki?

Porcupine and meerkats

We actually got to hear this guy roar!