The weather was really nice all three days we were there so we walked everywhere. I don’t know how many miles we put on, but my dogs were barking for a few days. We got in on to town on the 3rd, around 3:30pm and spent the first afternoon rushing through exhibits at the Art Institute (they close at 5pm), but we managed to take in quite a bit.

Day 2 we hiked up to the Field Museum. We spent most of the day there. The “Evolving Planet” exhibit and “Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids” were really, really cool.

In the afternoon, we walked up to the Shedd Aquarium. It was ok, but not as cool as I remember it when I was a kid. That eveneing we grabbed some dinner at the hotel restaurant and hoofed it down to the Sears Towerobservation deck to check out the fireworks they shoot off from Navy Pier every Wednesday during the summer. It was an incredible perspective to say the least. Andria tried to snap some pics with the Nikon D40, but the backlighting caused too many reflections, and the focal area was too dark so even with a high ISO, the shutter speed was too slow to get any clear images.

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