Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Chicago

O.K. for those of you who think I'm behind...here's what we just did...take a trip to Chicago... We went to Lincoln Park Zoo--a free zoo in Chicago that had some incredible animals!!!
Giraffes
Bears...this one had surgery on his tongue but we thought he was cute...we named him drooly bear!


A beautiful entry to the free zoo...we give it thumbs up!!




We were tired after the zoo, but not too tired to go have deep dish pizza at Giordano's! YUM!
We were right next to the Sears towe (now the Willis tower) so we walked over there.

A beautiful night time view. Since it was Spring break, they were open later than usual so we took advantage of the late hours and the fact that no one really knew they were open so there were very few people there...we walked right in and were able to spend lots of time on the ledges---a walk out clear floor that looks down to the road. Check out the pictures








The next day we went to the Shedd Aquarium. The line was huge but we signed up for a family membership so we were able to skip a little bit of the line and once we got in, we loved seeing all the beautiful fish. We even got to see the dolphin show! It was quite incredible. We got to see Beluga whales...I've never seen them before-they are huge and amazing!

Here is Abbey taking pictures of her favorite...dolphins


beluga whale














After the aquarium, we went to Millineum Park and took some fun pictures.
















It was a fun trip...frustrating when we didn't know where to park but a cool visit.

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