We boarded a boat for a morning tour of the Chicago river and
its architecture. Our tour guide had a speech sound disorder. Of course he did.
#slpproblems
But, whew! He was a wealth of knowledge and spewed forth
about every brace, bracket and balustrade. He hardly took a breath for an hour
and a half! My gracious this is a beautiful city. I hate to break it to NYC,
but Chi-town is my new favorite.
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for Charlotte's expensive nap
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| Corn Cob Towers |
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| Restraint technique used to keep Master Thomas from twisty-jumpy- falling into the Chicago river |
We continued our pizza battle royale by sampling some pizza
from Giordano’s. There were antsy children, moody tweens and short tempers which made a
wonderful side dish to our deep dish pizzas. Fun fact: Deep dish pizza’s take
up to ONE HOUR to cook? Isn't that a lot of fun family time!?!?!
The verdict in my case is that I’m more of a thin crust
girl. But, if I had to choose, I think I’d go with Lou Malnati’s. I polled the family
and we are divided across gender lines. But, we have more girls than boys.
#girlsruleboysdrool
Next stop, we set our sights on the Museum of Science and
Industry.
Mr. Bullington added this stop to the itinerary after our friend
Justin recommended it. Same Justin that suggested the Harvard Natural History Museum,
so we trusted his rec. To further convince me, Mr. Bullington pointed out that
the museum is housed in one of the few remaining original historic buildings built for the World’s
Fair in 1893. The museum contained such topics as Space, and making stuff out of things, and things out of stuff, and meteors...I bet,
and ions...I imagine, and gravity….probably. They did have a chick
hatchery where you could watch little baby chicks busting out of their little tiny egg shell prisons and a WWII GERMAN U-BOAT!!! Also, there was a sliced up human cadaver, so that was cool. The Bullington family road trip body count has increased
to 4+. We had a little mishap when Mr. Bullington and the kids
were doing some sort of flight simulator doohickie. It was my job to hold all of
the things (phones, wallets, glasses). I had to made a quick trip to the ladies
room. When I got back, I didn’t see anyone. They were in the simulators, but in
my mind they’d left because we had 4:30 tickets to tour the U-boat and it was
4:25. I descended 3 flights of stairs and they weren’t there. I also noticed
that I had no phone service down by the U-Boat, I had everyone phones, so if Mr. Bullington found a way to call me, I couldn’t
answer. So, I just went and stood in a central location and waited for them to
find me which eventually worked, albeit
15 minutes after our scheduled U-boat tour. Fortunately, the folks at the
museum were accommodating and gave us a private tour! This German U-505 is the
only one on display in the Western hemisphere and our tour guide was AWESOME!
Awesome Allison did a masterful job of peaking the children’s interest and
encouraging their curiosity. And now we’ve been on a German submarine.
#takethatnazis
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| World's possibly Largest Mirror Maze |
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| Welcome to the world, little chicks |
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| That, my friends, is a captured U-Boat! USA! USA! |
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| I hope Awesome Allison is a classroom teacher during the school year. |
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| It's a real drag to stub your toe on a live missile when you roll out of bed. |
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| Allison showing the kids the tiny hidden swastikas stamped on the metal by the nazis. |
We took an Uber to the Cubs game and I noticed something.
Uber drivers will often change the radio station when you get in the car. They
might be listening to something they like (rap, songs in their native language,
etc) then they change it to something they think you will like based on the way you look. So far this trip, our Uber drivers have changed the station to Kenny G and
Contemporary Christian Praise music when they saw us coming. Is it the Fanny
pack?
