After a good breakfast and a nearly uneventful trolley ride - our driver took time to make fun of a construction flag man who was flagging cars into the cones rather than away from them.
Anyway the Field museum was really something, Sue the T-Rex, gemstones, room after room of stuffed, positioned animals (fortunately virtually all prior to 1920 from the signage). I didn’t have any idea how many North American birds there were, room after room of various birds. There were displays of all kinds of animals, those you expect and animals that look just too small or too big to be what they are supposed to be.... There were a few amusing moments when we ended up following a family with three young children through the primate display. The youngest just kept pointing and saying “Monkey Butts” every time she saw a monkey butt. Siblings, parents, strangers, she was suddenly a docent specializing in the quantity and quality of monkey butt displays.
As if that wasn’t enough animal anatomy study, we came across a “spell” in the Ancient Egypt section. The spell promised, among other things that among to heal your cat. “May your Cat’s Buttocks be the as the Buttocks of the god that swims the water...” a little obscure for me, but I am sure the little girl loved it.
We then rode a water taxi from the Planetarium to the Navy Pier and took the skyline water tour. The stained glass museum – also at the Navy Pier – which was really something else, well over 100 stained glass panels of various styles and ages was great (and free) way to spend some time. After we ate, P got me on the Ferris Wheel, which was okay the first ¼ and last ¼ but the middle half was a little much. Even more frightening was the fact that the original Ferris Wheel was 100 ft taller (250 ft tall) and would hold some 1500 people at one time.
During a really crowded trolley ride I noticed with humor the 32 person maximum capacity sign — there were 22 people at our point and about 10 benches behind us plus probably 15 standing behind. We hopped off, then a quick El ride and we were back to the hotel... well not quite. We decided to stop at a CVS and pick up some bottled water and a few Dr. Peppers — I am not sure what Chicago has against Dr. Pepper but they don’t want to be a Pepper too! No Dr Pepper at the Deli in Field museum, none at the Mickey D’s at the Navy Pier (how can this be) none at the restaurant we ate at (not even that second cousin substitute Mr. Pibb). I couldn’t even find one at the little catch all stores in the Navy Pier — the ones that carry two AA batteries for $4, 20 ounce Cokes and Pepsis for $3.00 and $5.00 sticks of gum — even they couldn’t be bothered to carry the Dr.
Anyway P & I got off the El, went to the CVS and picked up what we needed, left, knowing that we were only a block or so from the hotel since we thought we knew where the hotel was in relationship to the CVS. Unfortunately we never considered that there might be two CVS stores within a block and a half of each other on either side of our hotel. So we spent our second consecutive evening wandering around the block for 20 minutes before seeing the other CVS store and finally getting our bearings. Just in case you are wondering, yes I turned left when I should have turned right - that makes up for Monday when I got lost on the other side of the same block turning right when I should have turned left.
As if that wasn’t enough animal anatomy study, we came across a “spell” in the Ancient Egypt section. The spell promised, among other things that among to heal your cat. “May your Cat’s Buttocks be the as the Buttocks of the god that swims the water...” a little obscure for me, but I am sure the little girl loved it.
We then rode a water taxi from the Planetarium to the Navy Pier and took the skyline water tour. The stained glass museum – also at the Navy Pier – which was really something else, well over 100 stained glass panels of various styles and ages was great (and free) way to spend some time. After we ate, P got me on the Ferris Wheel, which was okay the first ¼ and last ¼ but the middle half was a little much. Even more frightening was the fact that the original Ferris Wheel was 100 ft taller (250 ft tall) and would hold some 1500 people at one time.
During a really crowded trolley ride I noticed with humor the 32 person maximum capacity sign — there were 22 people at our point and about 10 benches behind us plus probably 15 standing behind. We hopped off, then a quick El ride and we were back to the hotel... well not quite. We decided to stop at a CVS and pick up some bottled water and a few Dr. Peppers — I am not sure what Chicago has against Dr. Pepper but they don’t want to be a Pepper too! No Dr Pepper at the Deli in Field museum, none at the Mickey D’s at the Navy Pier (how can this be) none at the restaurant we ate at (not even that second cousin substitute Mr. Pibb). I couldn’t even find one at the little catch all stores in the Navy Pier — the ones that carry two AA batteries for $4, 20 ounce Cokes and Pepsis for $3.00 and $5.00 sticks of gum — even they couldn’t be bothered to carry the Dr.
Anyway P & I got off the El, went to the CVS and picked up what we needed, left, knowing that we were only a block or so from the hotel since we thought we knew where the hotel was in relationship to the CVS. Unfortunately we never considered that there might be two CVS stores within a block and a half of each other on either side of our hotel. So we spent our second consecutive evening wandering around the block for 20 minutes before seeing the other CVS store and finally getting our bearings. Just in case you are wondering, yes I turned left when I should have turned right - that makes up for Monday when I got lost on the other side of the same block turning right when I should have turned left.
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