Saturday 30 May 2009

It's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses

Today we got up, and went down to Museum Campus, which is by Soldier Field (where we had to park) and went to the Field Museum, where we bought a "City Pass" for $69 this gives us free entery to the Field museum, Aquarium, Planetarium, Skydeck or John Hancock Tower and the Science and Idustry museum. Bargain!The field mueseum was massive, loads and loads of exhibits from all over the world of all kinds of things, and Sue. Sue is the world's largest t-rex fossil/remains/skeleton whatever you want to call itand everything apart from her head sits in the main hall. She's huge, then you have to imagin all the flesh etc on top of the skeleton and the size is immense! the hea has it's own exhibit on the 2nd floor were it shows you how they restored the artifact, as it was filled with rock and partly crushed due to Sue's pelvis being ontop of her head, welding her jaw shut. It was very impressive. Next we headed to the Shedd Aquarium and saw many cool things, barely anythign of which saw in Australia, there was also apparently the chance to dive their fake caribbean reef, though I didn't see that. we saw some big white beluga whales, dolphins, sea otters, which are very amusing, penguins and loads of other stuff, it was great :) we then wandered toward downtown to see if we could find some food etc, afer a while we gave up headed back to the car and stopped off at wal mart on the way home! We got home at a decent time so I introduced Alan to the Blues Brothers film, as I'd brought it along to watch when in chicago. (sorry if you've been looking for it bloke! I've got it :P)

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