Welcome to my vacation blog part 2. Lets see how far I get!
As we were walking to the bus stop we found an R2D2 mail box so of course the 2 Star Wars fans needed to stop for pictures....or maybe I stopped them for pictures?
Monday we bussed it to Navy Pier. But due to the weather that the area had been having we were not able to ride any of the rides that they have at the pier because they were all closed. We were bummed thinking our day was a loss, we walked through the mall on the pier and found in the center of the mall a guy juggling and performing for the kids, so we stopped to watch for about 15 minutes. He was very entertaining. And we saw that they had a Children's Museum there. It was soo much stinking fun! We had fun even being grown ups! The museum was just awesome, we could have spent all day there really, but me being a schedule nazi wouldn't allow that to happen. (I need help!) They had the biggest Blue Man Group display ever!
Brooklyn made music using different tubes and body parts. She and those sunglasses through most of the trip! She looks like a hippy or something! She liked wearing them because she thought they looked like "real" glasses. The way the kids got from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor was by climbing nets and tubes! 
What a great idea!! 
So much fun! I took picture of the giant chess set - I thought of Jaren and how much fun he would have playing with chess pieces that large.
Brooklyn did the shadow wall and made all kinds of crazy shadows 
and operated and controlled a water system using pulleys. 
Again, I just can not believe how much stuff there is in this town for kids!
There was also a fossil digging section, those pictures are mostly too dark but here is Brooklyn getting her hand eaten by a T-Rex head.
After our wonderful afternoon at the museum we went down to Bubba Gump's Shrimp for lunch. That was so fun! The waiters quiz you on your Forrest Gump knowledge. It was good food and good fun!
Once we left there we went to go to Grant Park to see the Buckingham Fountain (the fountain at the beginning of Married With Children) and there was NO WATER in the fountain because of the weather!
Oh well here are the pictures of the dry fountain! We have post cards of the fountain in 
summer time so we know what it looks like.
After Grant Park we went to the Sears Tower. 
It was cool to be able to go to the United States tallest 
building, 
we went to the 104th floor. But it was a snoozer! Nothing like the Hancock Building. Nothing was there to entertain us. We didn't stay long. But it still awesome to be that high in the air and the views were breath taking. 
Dinner was from a sandwich deli down the street from our hotel. It was good.
Tuesday another cold day! We had found a bakery around the block from our hotel- Oh good bagels! As you could imagine we don't have good bagels here in Carson City. So I was delighted to have a toasted blue berry bagel with cream cheese. AHH heaven. After my delightful breakfast we went to the Museum of Science and Industry. Again, Holy crap! So much fun!
Another great children's exhibit 
- Brooklyn got to do a lot with science and stuff.
We saw the German U-boat submarine that the US soldiers captured in 1944. 
It is credited with winning the WWII for the US, we never told anyone we had captured the boat so we were able to steal all of their intelligence, when we told that to Brooklyn she said, " Well, if we were able to steal all of their intelligence how were they able to live and think." Haa haa! The most interesting part of the U-boat was that they actually built the museum around the boat. And we were able to see the bullet holes in the side of the boat. We also saw the Body Exhibit.
Gross and cool all at the same time. We were not able to take pictures of the cadavers, but let me tell you that Brooklyn had a big lesson in sex education that day since most of the bodies were men and they were all left anatomically correct. It was interesting to see the lungs of a healthy person
next to a smoker next to a coal miner. Those things were very interesting to me.
fter that we went to the Field Museum.
It has the most complete collection of T-Rex bones in the world, the T-Rex was named Sue after the woman who found it. Also has a big fossil exhibit, but wouldn't you know it that my stupid camera that sucks batteries like it's going out of style died twice this day so I don't have the best pictures that I could have had.
When the museum closed and they kicked us out it was dinner time. We went to Lou Malnati's
Pizzeria. MMMMM delicious! I love Chicago deep dish pizza. They freeze pack it and will send it to you packed in dry ice. We are definitely going to have to do that!
So after pizza we walked home and rested for what was supposed to be our big day at Wrigley Field on Wednesday.
As we were walking to the bus stop we found an R2D2 mail box so of course the 2 Star Wars fans needed to stop for pictures....or maybe I stopped them for pictures?
Monday we bussed it to Navy Pier. But due to the weather that the area had been having we were not able to ride any of the rides that they have at the pier because they were all closed. We were bummed thinking our day was a loss, we walked through the mall on the pier and found in the center of the mall a guy juggling and performing for the kids, so we stopped to watch for about 15 minutes. He was very entertaining. And we saw that they had a Children's Museum there. It was soo much stinking fun! We had fun even being grown ups! The museum was just awesome, we could have spent all day there really, but me being a schedule nazi wouldn't allow that to happen. (I need help!) They had the biggest Blue Man Group display ever!
Brooklyn made music using different tubes and body parts. She and those sunglasses through most of the trip! She looks like a hippy or something! She liked wearing them because she thought they looked like "real" glasses. The way the kids got from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor was by climbing nets and tubes! 
What a great idea!! 
So much fun! I took picture of the giant chess set - I thought of Jaren and how much fun he would have playing with chess pieces that large.
Brooklyn did the shadow wall and made all kinds of crazy shadows 
and operated and controlled a water system using pulleys. 
Again, I just can not believe how much stuff there is in this town for kids!
There was also a fossil digging section, those pictures are mostly too dark but here is Brooklyn getting her hand eaten by a T-Rex head.
After our wonderful afternoon at the museum we went down to Bubba Gump's Shrimp for lunch. That was so fun! The waiters quiz you on your Forrest Gump knowledge. It was good food and good fun!Once we left there we went to go to Grant Park to see the Buckingham Fountain (the fountain at the beginning of Married With Children) and there was NO WATER in the fountain because of the weather!
Oh well here are the pictures of the dry fountain! We have post cards of the fountain in 
summer time so we know what it looks like.
After Grant Park we went to the Sears Tower. 
It was cool to be able to go to the United States tallest 
building, 
we went to the 104th floor. But it was a snoozer! Nothing like the Hancock Building. Nothing was there to entertain us. We didn't stay long. But it still awesome to be that high in the air and the views were breath taking. 
Dinner was from a sandwich deli down the street from our hotel. It was good.
Tuesday another cold day! We had found a bakery around the block from our hotel- Oh good bagels! As you could imagine we don't have good bagels here in Carson City. So I was delighted to have a toasted blue berry bagel with cream cheese. AHH heaven. After my delightful breakfast we went to the Museum of Science and Industry. Again, Holy crap! So much fun!
Another great children's exhibit 
- Brooklyn got to do a lot with science and stuff.
We saw the German U-boat submarine that the US soldiers captured in 1944. 
It is credited with winning the WWII for the US, we never told anyone we had captured the boat so we were able to steal all of their intelligence, when we told that to Brooklyn she said, " Well, if we were able to steal all of their intelligence how were they able to live and think." Haa haa! The most interesting part of the U-boat was that they actually built the museum around the boat. And we were able to see the bullet holes in the side of the boat. We also saw the Body Exhibit.
Gross and cool all at the same time. We were not able to take pictures of the cadavers, but let me tell you that Brooklyn had a big lesson in sex education that day since most of the bodies were men and they were all left anatomically correct. It was interesting to see the lungs of a healthy person
next to a smoker next to a coal miner. Those things were very interesting to me.fter that we went to the Field Museum.
It has the most complete collection of T-Rex bones in the world, the T-Rex was named Sue after the woman who found it. Also has a big fossil exhibit, but wouldn't you know it that my stupid camera that sucks batteries like it's going out of style died twice this day so I don't have the best pictures that I could have had.
When the museum closed and they kicked us out it was dinner time. We went to Lou Malnati's
Pizzeria. MMMMM delicious! I love Chicago deep dish pizza. They freeze pack it and will send it to you packed in dry ice. We are definitely going to have to do that!
So after pizza we walked home and rested for what was supposed to be our big day at Wrigley Field on Wednesday.
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I am tired after day two...
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