Adam Turtle, Freelance Web Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Since1986
Update from Chicago
- 4th September, 2008
- filed under: Travel
- 2 comments
I’ve been having a great time here so far in Chicago, keeping busy most days. On Tuesday, I bought new shoes as my old one almost fell apart on me. Take a look:
Quite proud of myself, as it only cost me $22.
Yesterday I had a particularly produce day. I got up early and went to visit the Museum of Science and Industry, which I got into for free as it was one of their free days after Labour Day. It was a huge museum, and actually really interesting. I spent the entire day there from 9.30 to closing time at 4pm. They had the U-505, the German U-Boat that the US Army captured during WWII, the Apollo space lander training module, which Neil Armstrong et al. used to train for their Apollo moon landing in 1969. I saw a coal mine, baby chicks, an IMAX movie about the Grand Canyon and loads of other things. Really, really cool. Only gripe I would have is that they served one of the worst burgers I’ve ever had. And I paid $7 for it. Yeuch.
It’s me, as an astronaut. This is probably the only photo I’ve taken of myself so far…
A waterfall of dry ice at the Science and Industry Museum
One of the Wright Brothers’ biplanes at the MSI
I went back downtown afterwards, entered a raffle for cheap theater tickets and checked out the Marilyn Monroe exhibit at the Cultural Center. It wasn’t fantastic, but was worth a look. I went back to the theater and was lucky enough to win front row seats last night’s performance of Wicked, which is a kind of prequel to the Wizard of Oz, for just $25. My seat wasn’t fantastic as it turned out, my view was blocked by some stage props so I could only really see one side of the stage and I was right beside the speakers so I missed some dialogue but overall it was a very impressive show. The story is very clever and is worked very well around the classic 1930’s movie.
Today it’s pouring out of the heavens so I abandoned my plans to see the zoo and went to the Field Museum, which is a natural history museum. It was quite good, but rather expensive for someone who wasn’t all that into it. Better than standing out in the rain, though.
Rainy day in the Windy City
One of the many dinosaur skeletons they have at the Field Museum
So now I’m preparing to go out to Kingston Mines, which is reportedly one of Chicago’s best Blues bars. I’ll get soaked on the way, so I hope it’s worth it!
i love wicked… read the book last year and then went to see it in london… think i might take lori to go see it in a couple months…
looks like your having fun on your ownsome….see you soon