A Day at The Field Museum

On Saturday Kermit & I loaded up the kids and spent a few hours at The Field Museum. This museum is just fabulous! The building's architecture is so beautiful. Huge and grand! I just love it! The exhibits are always interesting & unique. In the center of the main hall there is of course the famous skeleton of Sue, the largest and most complete T-rex ever discovered. People come from all around the world to see her and have their picture taken in front of her. Someday maybe we will.

When we go to the Field Museum we bypass Sue (though we do wave), and bypass the map of all our choices of exhibits. We head straight for the "Nature Walk" to view all kinds of non-extinct animals. Seriously, this is almost better than a zoo! Our girls LOVE it! It is hall, after hall, after hall of animals. The artwork and surrounding habitat for these animals is so realistic! They have done an amazing job making these exhibits come to life, as if you were seeing live animals in the wild! We always have a great time visiting our animal friends at The Field.

We also like to visit the new Play Lab at the Field Museum. All the exhibits there are kid friendly and hands-on.




On our way home, we of course had to stop at Portillos. We all got hot dogs except Kermit. He got a hamburger. He LOVES their hamburgers! He thinks they are better than In-n-Out. I think not....that's why I always get a dog. Portillos is expanding and just opened a restaurant in California not too far from my parents. Our next visit we will have a taste test...Portillos hamburger VS. In-n-out! Then he will see that there is simply nothing more heavenly than an In-n-Out Burger! I will say this about Portillos, they have the BEST chocolate cake ever! That also qualifies as heavenly in my book!