Chicago!

We spent the day in Chicago on Friday. I had organized a field trip to the Adler planetarium for our home school group so that was our first stop. It was nice, but lots and lots of school groups. Now, I am not trying to be anti-public school here I am just giving an observation from the museum time we have spent this year, but the school groups are just soooo rowdy. It seems like maybe there are too many kids and not enough supervision, and the supervision they do have don't seem to have much control. So in the bigger museums it isn't too bad because you can get away from those groups but the Adler is a smaller museum so it was a bit crazy. But we did get to see a few things before we took off for the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Museum of Science and Industry is huge and also free for the rest of January so it was awesome!!! Mike and I refuse to pay the parking garages so we found great parking down the street and walked in the - degrees temperatures. Our ears were a tad cold but it was worth the 20 bucks!! I think the Museum of Science and Industry is my favorite so far. So interactive and just a lot of cool stuff to experience and see.

After climbing a bit on this cool rock wall at the Museum we were all starved and decided to hit China Town for a little dim sum. We made it to Happy Chef Dim Sum by three o'clock so we got to experience dim sum which they only serve until 4. It was so good. We tried a bunch of cool stuff, some that we had tried before and some that we hadn't. And the kids had a blast reading the signs of the food we didn't try like geoduck and eel.

Kristen