Our trip to Chicago went well though we saw less than we intended. We started at Navy Pier Friday morning and spent pretty much the entire day there. Despite the cold, windy weather they still had the rides open, too. We also saw the children's and stained glass museums while there. We drove to our motel and had dinner at TGI Fridays. Sat morning we drove to the nearest CTA train station and took the 'L' into the city. We went to Shedd Aquarium where the line was surprisingly long though our Go Chicago cards allowed us to bypass that. We ended up staying pretty much the entire day there, too. We walked over to Adler Planetarium, but they had closed early because they had at least 5 weddings that took place that afternoon. Here we are with the Sears Tower on the far left and Hancock Building on the far right.

Being 4pm, we decided it wasn't worth trying to get to another attraction and having so little time there so we just took the train back home. We played some Star Wars Monopoly in our room. Sunday morning we drove to Moody Church. It's a pretty impressive building, too. Even though Erwin Lutzer's intonation has always annoyed me, he gave a great sermon. From here the original plan was to go to the MSI, but the boys didn't want to do that so Stephan and I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art and Merrie, Sydney and Samuel went to the Hancock Building. As it turned out we both finished at the same time so we found a hole-in-the-wall food joint and then left for Terre Haute. Samuel did amazingly well for such a long trip. I can only think it will get worse as he ages when he won't sleep as much. :)