Things Learned Today:
1. The Field Museum of Natural History is huge. We spent five hours there today and saw every area but admittedly passed through a couple of exhibits quickly. Favorites were the dinosaurs and the American Indian exhibits.
2. Taxis run up $ quickly. A short ride, under a mile, cost us about $11.00 + tip.
3. When waiting on, depending on, a free trolley to get back to your hotel, it is important to know when the trolleys quit running.
4. There are dangerous areas of Chicago.
5. Chicago is strongly Obama territory.
6. Lincoln Park is a great area of Chicago that runs along Lake Michigan. Tons of runners, boats anchored in the lake, hundreds, I mean hundreds, playing volleyball on the beach there.
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On the agenda tomorrow is the Shedd Museum.
We drove around a little this evening, actually getting rather wonderfully lost, and have started considering the Lincoln Park Zoo. It is free and in a beautiful area. Tomorrow, due to a great friend in Keller, we will have our season passes to Six Flags. She sent them Fedex today. It is an amazing thing that someone can mail something in Texas on Monday, and it can be delivered to this hotel the next day. So, Six Flags Over Great America is now an option for fun before we leave.
1. The Field Museum of Natural History is huge. We spent five hours there today and saw every area but admittedly passed through a couple of exhibits quickly. Favorites were the dinosaurs and the American Indian exhibits.
2. Taxis run up $ quickly. A short ride, under a mile, cost us about $11.00 + tip.
3. When waiting on, depending on, a free trolley to get back to your hotel, it is important to know when the trolleys quit running.
4. There are dangerous areas of Chicago.
5. Chicago is strongly Obama territory.
6. Lincoln Park is a great area of Chicago that runs along Lake Michigan. Tons of runners, boats anchored in the lake, hundreds, I mean hundreds, playing volleyball on the beach there.
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On the agenda tomorrow is the Shedd Museum.
We drove around a little this evening, actually getting rather wonderfully lost, and have started considering the Lincoln Park Zoo. It is free and in a beautiful area. Tomorrow, due to a great friend in Keller, we will have our season passes to Six Flags. She sent them Fedex today. It is an amazing thing that someone can mail something in Texas on Monday, and it can be delivered to this hotel the next day. So, Six Flags Over Great America is now an option for fun before we leave.
posted by Brian Miller at 8:30 PM
2 Comments:
I loved the Science & Industry Museum - are you going there? Also I enjoyed a boat ride in the river and one on the lake that I boarded on Navy Pier.
Enjoy!
too little time... too many sights. Not planning to do Science and Tech. Did the Shedd today. Loved that.
Lm
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