Going Home, The Field Museum

 We stayed at the Warwick Allerton. I booked it through Priceline. Typically, I have a little better luck, but it was still a good hotel. The room was pretty spacious by city standards, and I liked that it had a couch/table area. It had a great location. The only thing it was really lacking was a view (which I really appreciate while on vacation). I had my fingers crossed for a Lake Michigan view, but that's okay. We were hardly in the room except for night time anyway. 

 I love this picture of Leah because you can see her missing tooth. 

 We went to The Field Museum on the way out of the city. I think the museum was a little over their heads, but they had fun running all around. Chris and I wished we had the opportunity to actually read about some of the exhibits, but it was still okay. Leah's favorite part was the hall of (taxidermy) birds. It was so disturbing for me to be in room after room of stuffed birds, so I told her the exhibit was over prematurely.

They were excited to see dinosaur bones, but didn't care much once they were in the exhibit. All they wanted to do was press the buttons that start the recordings. They didn't want to watch the little videos, just press the buttons. Over and over again. And fight loudly about whose turn it was to press the next button. And complain if someone else was actually watching a video. I love them, though. I think they would have been happier to just go to a playground. 

Juliet did like standing in the dinosaur footprint and acting like a dinosaur.  

 This was a recreation of "Lucy". Juliet walked up to it and was looking all over for it's "peanut". She got behind the case and was looking up it's booty. Then she loudly declared, "Him have no peanut. Him a GIRL!" She got a pretty good reaction from the people around her. She loves an audience. 

On the way home, we had to pay the tolls twice because Juliet really had to use the bathroom and couldn't wait another minute. The ramp we got off was not an easy on/easy off. Google maps said we could turn around before the toll, but that was a lie. We got home at 9 at night and discovered our air conditioning had broke. Arg!

All and all, it was a really fun trip. I felt like the girls "broke" Daddy a few times. It was clear that they felt the trip was for them and there should be no rules. Leah kept saying, "We do whatever I want, because this is my trip." There were many times that Chris and I had to put on our serious voices and put the girls in check. Still, it was a really fun experience and the ONLY trip we've ever taken with just the 4 of us. We're not really "city" people, but it is fun to see new things and provide the girls with some different experiences. We will be back!