Planes, Trains, & Automobiles

Trip to Chicago is almost over. Had a little snafu @ the airport. Amber & I aren’t sitting together. She almost didn’t get a seat, they had to ask for volunteers to bump. You would figure in this day & age the airlines would be able to keep from overbooking flights. So after a 30 minute tense wait thinking I was going to have to give up my seat to wait with her. We had some luck & got on the plane. Granted now we’re sitting @ opposite ends of the plane but I figure we need some time apart (Just kidding Amber).

Yesterday was a long day of El rides, bus rides, cab rides, walking, & waiting in lines. Don’t get me wrong I enjoyed every minute of it. After a 2 hour commute into the city we went to the The largest science museum in a single building in the Western Hemisphere with over 800 exhibits and over 2,000 interactive units located in over 350,000 square feet of exhibit space. Museum of Science & Industry. It covers 14+ acres, has an actual German U-boat, a full size 727, & a Spitfire dog fighting a German Stuka Bomber. What we were really there for was the Body Worlds exhibit. Some German mad scientist figured out how to embed bodies with polymers & preserve them. It’s a little disturbing but very enlightening to see the muscles, ligaments, bones, & veins. We ended up spending about 5 or 6 hours in the museum.

Amber & I started to get pretty good getting around on the bus & El (both first for both of us). It amazing how great good public transportation can be. I was surprised to see all the busses & trains allow bikes as well. The majority of the bikes I saw were single speeds, with the vast majority of them being fixies(that’s hardcore in a big city!).

We had nice walk around the Loop before hopping back on the Blue Line to head back to our hotel room. Kind of run out of things to say & the plane is going to land.