Chicago day 1

The boys and I spent two days with Cheryl in Chicago.  We went by train and the boys were excited, especially Joshua.

We went to the Museum of Science and Industry first.  I said we were going to see Robots, and so Joshua was all about that.  It was a timed entry though, so we "had" to do some other things first.  Isaac loves mazes, so we went to the mirror maze first.

We did the robots after that.  Joshua said it was his favorite part.

There were a lot of intense stares while watching robots do cool things.

Isaac really wanted to do the magnet cubes, so we headed over there.  (It was nice to have two adults.)  Each cube preforms a different function: battery, wheels, sensor, spinner, etc.  After a bit of work he finally got one that moved and spiun at the same time.

We then had a long period of time where I don't have any pictures.  I really thought I had taken some, but maybe I was just too caught up in what we were doing.  The main things that we did were looking at trains, the coal mine (which Isaac said was his favorite), and the IDEAS exhibit.  The IDEAS was just for younger kids and they loved the place.  There were balls and water.  Joshua made a big robot/path from the heavy foam building blocks that you see in museums and probably spent about 30 minutes on it.

Near the end Isaac and I took a quick look at the circus portion and I loved the falling light dots.

We also took a quick stop at the farm while trying to figure out where to go next.  It closed at 4pm.  (The hours of everything perplexed me.  Everything opens at 10am, which seems rather late.  Kids are up early!)  Joshua got up on the tractor, but was too tired to get on the cow.  Who can blame him?  We were up early and had had a full day.

We ended up going to the Cheesecake Factory (yum) and then back to the hotel.  We took a short swim in the pool and then went to bed.  Joshua didn't fall asleep right away (probably because of the nap in the taxi).  Isaac just curled up in the bottom corner of the bed with the sheets over him and fell asleep.  Joshua was determined to sleep where I was and so I ended up switching sides of the bed a few times...moving him didn't work for more than five minutes.