Part 2

Let's see...so I left off at the end of our second day so let's start on the third, shall we?

On Saturday we got up early so we could get ready to make yet another journey on that EL train. This time we were headed for The Museum of Science & Industry. This ride seemed to be exceptionally long and I was getting rather irritated that it was going unbelievably slow this time because we had timed tickets and had to be on the U-505 at 11:00! We left plenty early enough the train was just going much slower than usual. We had to switch from the train to a bus that would take us right to the museum. I really liked that drive because we rode all along Lake Shore Drive which is right by Lake Michigan. When we did finally get to the museum we had to practically run to get to that submarine. When we did get to the point where we needed to be with tickets in hand, we only had about 5 minutes to spare. Talk about cutting it close! It was then that they informed us they were running behind and it would be about another 20 minutes...pfffttt....all that running I did was for nothing...lol. While we waited we looked around at the outside of the sub and looked at the other exhibits surrounding it. My dad wanted to take this pic of me in front of this really big gun. No, I did not plan on wearing the camo top for the occassion, it just happened to be what I pulled out of my suitcase that morning...LOL. It was finally our turn to go on the tour inside of the sub. That was very neat! I'm all in to history and thought it was super cool to be inside of it. the thing is just huge!!! I thought the kitchen was really cool. After we left the sub exhibit we gandered around until I came upon a really cool chick hatchery exhibit. That was really neat! I hung out for quite some time and got to watch 2 chicks hatch. I think that was one of my favorite parts of the museum :). We had tickets to pasrticipate in the 1:30 CSI experience. I was really looking forward to this but have to say I was really disappointed. I didn't think it was worth the $14.00 for the ticket. It was nothing like I expected it to be. I'm sure a lot of people really liked it, I just wasn't one of those people...LOL. We did a lot more exploring after that and found some pretty neat things including this giant heart...lol. That was a pretty neat heart! You could hear it beating from a long ways away...LOL. I looked for the body slices because I really wanted to see them but just couldn't find them. I know I probably passed them I did find a real set of lungs which was pretty gross...lol. The exhibit was showing you what lungs look like that have inhaled a lot of polluted air and smoke. If you would've seen these lungs and you smoke, I'm certain you'd quit!! They were very very dark and just looked horrible. Poor poor lungs. I tried to not go to the prenatal exhibit when I came close to it but I just couldn't help it. I was far too curious to not go look. There were a lot of babies starting from a fertilized egg all the way to a 37 week old fetus. I thought it was very interesting although incredibly sad. It didn't occur to me until I was looking at them that it might bother me a little since I've miscarried before. I guess I could've done without knowing what mine looked like when I lost it. Seeing the 37 week old baby was really shocking. Moving right along....I really liked seeing the exhibit of ships from the past. That was pretty neat. While we were there we saw a whole community of Amish people! That was soooooooo cool! I had never seen Amish people in person before! They look just like they do on TV! LOL! It didn't occur to me that they might not want me taking a pic of them but I found that out really quick! LOL! I snapped a pic of them thinking they didn't see me until I heard about 40 gasps. Out of respect for them I deleted the pic so no pic of the Amish people to share....lol. I really had a good time at the museum, but honestly I think I would have enjoyed the Field Museum more. We each picked things we wanted to do while we were there and this wasn't my pick. My favorite parts were the U-505, the chick hatchery, and the Amish people even though they weren't an exhibit...LOL. I did quite a bit of shopping in the store in the museum and then we left. I'm telling you the second we got off the bus in downtown it started pouring. There wasn't even a chance of rain when I looked at the weather. We headed back to the hotel since I looked like a long haired wet dog...lol. I knew my dad was really exhausted. We had him all over that city and we were mostly on foot. I don't mind the walking at all but we climbed so many stairs my calves were killing me. We got back to the hotel and my dad just crashed...lol. My brother and I found another Giordano's close to the hotel so we went back there for our last night's dinner. We got another deep dish pizza but this time I also ordered some Brushetta and it was sooooooooooo good!!! I found a recipe and thing I'm gonna try making some of it for my mom. After dinner we came back to the hotel and I started to pack all of the goodies up that I bought for everyone. We got up early the next morning and headed to O'Hare to catch our flight out. I thought it was a lot quicker getting through security and such at O'Hare than it was at DFW. Our plane was really late getting there though but we were only a little late departing. They told us that somehow our flight got overbooked and they were giving $200 travel vouchers to anyone who would give up their seat and take a flight leaving 4 hours later. I'm wishing that I would have taken that. I'm ready to go somewhere agin.....lol. The flight back was pretty rough. We flew through several storms and it was pretty turbulant. The plane dropped quite a bit on one occasion and scared the terror out of me. I was really happy when we landed until the captain came on and told us we'd be on the holding pad for at least 45 minutes. He said there was a major power outage at DFW that morning which ended up causing huge delays in take offs and landings. We had to wait in line for our turn to pull up to our gate. I was so sick of being on the plane at this point I nearly told him to just let me out and I'd walk the rest of the way...lol. We still had to make the 2 hour drive back home and I was really worn out from the whole weekend. We finally got off the plane and then had to wait forever for our luggage. We finally got home in the evening. The kids were waiting out front for me and were both really happy that I was home. My sweet husband had the entire house cleaned and had also done all the laundry so I wouldn't have to do anything when I got home :). It was a really good trip and it was really nice to get away and I'm really glad I got to spend so much time with my dad :). I've decided flying isn't that bad after all and is so much better than driving. I got my airline ticket on Priceline and got such a great deal that I definately plan on using them the next time I plan on flying which hopefully isn't too long from now :).