The boys were super excited...for everything. For Chicago, for the train, for not going to school. (Isaac only had a half day though.) One of the things that I thought was cool is that as he was looking out the window Isaac was figuring out what kind of a community it was...rural, suburban, or urban. They had studied it a few weeks ago in school, so it was cool to see it being put into practice.
Once we were almost to the train station Joshua decided he wanted to start counting the roofs of the houses we were passing. ...well, he and Grandma counted as fast as Joshua could, which wasn't very fast.
We stopped at the hotel to drop off our stuff. There was a bear.
Joshua: Is the bear real?
Isaac: No, it's wearing a shirt.
Later when I asked Joshua if it was a real bear he told me it wasn't because of the shirt....not because of the many other reasons that it might not be real.
We went to the Museum of Science and Industry and stayed pretty much until they kicked us out...and we still didn't get to everything.
There was a large bucket with balls that tipped over every few minutes. Joshua was intrigued/worried about it.
Joshua carried around these two red balls a lot longer than I would have thought was fun. Sometimes he let go to put them in the river or what not, but then always got them back again.
My favorite part was the large Tesla coil. The boys' favorite part was "everything" (including the movie Joshua fell asleep during.)
After dinner we had reservations at the Sugar Factory. Oh my goodness, Isaac was so excited. Joshua was excited too, but Isaac went a bit crazy. Everything, the food and the desserts, were delicious.
And what trip to Chicago would be complete without a stop at the Lego store? Joshua got Kai as his Mini-fig match, which was pretty cool.
Phew. A great day, but by the time we got to the hotel I was exhausted and fell asleep quite promptly.
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