The Days Just Aren't Long Enough

For our second full day in Chicago we took the boys up to the Museum of Science and Industry. It was, in all honesty, probably the one place that was most likely to not be as big a hit, particularly with Liam. He seemed to have a good time, but both boys are getting pretty worn out on this trip. We had another good breakfast this morning and headed off to the Museum around 11am. It turns out we're a week too early for their new "Star Wars" exhibit, so it looks like we'll be coming back in the near future. I mean, Star Wars. Come on.

Despite the fact that this was our only stop for the day, we didn't even come close to seeing it all. We did see a lot of the transportation exhibits, the U-505 German submarine (unbelievably cool), an Omnimax show, the space exhibits, the chick hatchery, and the farm exhibits. We also took the boys to the Idea Factory, which is kind of similar to the Magic House in St. Louis. We squeezed in lunch somewhere and finally made it out around 4pm.

After we left the museum we went downtown to Michigan Ave. and took the boys to the LEGO store. Logan was, as expected, rendered pretty much incoherent when he saw the store and all the Star Wars stuff right in front.

Yes, that is an R2-D2 and a Darth Vader made entirely out of LEGOs. They had quite a bit of other cool stuff in there as well, although thanks to the internet there was nothing really that you couldn't get anywhere else. Still, a cool store. The boys both walked out with a new LEGO set, and a lot of Christmas ideas.

Tomorrow we're aiming for the Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum. They're right next door to each other, so we're going to try and do them both in one day, but who knows? The Aquarium ought to be the highlight so that will be first. The Field probably has more that will be over their heads and not as exciting, but the dinosaurs ought to make up for that. That will leave Monday's half-day wide open, but I'm not even sure I want to try and make it downtown on a workday. Chicago traffic is horrid.

Anyway, so far so good! No more sickness, although the boys are getting cranky around dinnertime. Hopefully they hang in there through tomorrow. More then!