Chicago Trip

Last weekend we headed to Chicago for a quick trip with the boys. We had a blast!

Here's the boys in front of the train station in St. Joseph.

Here comes the Amrak train!

Brian perfectly captured Carter's expressions...he was pretty shocked by the size of the engine and loud choo choos!

All Aboard!

After an early morning train ride, taxi ride to the Hilton Hotel, we were already a bit pooped out. Time to watch a little March Madness bball and snuggle...

After naps, we headed to the hotel pool. The boys were total water rats!

Cool view from the 8th floor pool...the Sears Tower

We thought the pool would wear them out, but nope...back at the room it was nothing but wrestling and goofing off. Eventually they settled down, Sam read Carter some books and they both crashed.

The next morning we were up early and off to explore Chi-town.

Here we are crossing the Grant Park bridge on our way to the Field Museum. The weather was perfect for walking!

Whoa!

The highlight of the trip was checking out "Sue", the famous T-Rex.

Sam was completely in awe and hasn't stopped talking about it since.

The actual "Sue" skull. It weighs over 600 pounds!

Time for the 3D T-Rex movie! The boys loved it but it was a bit "scary".

Carter LOVED the dinosaur dig

The lower level of the museum had a cool hands-on play area.

Next, we planned to go to Shedd's Aquarium, but there was a 2 hour wait. No thank you! So we enjoyed the nice day and walked to the Planetarium, located right on Lake Michigan.

Here's Sam and daddy practicing moon jumping

Mini-Astronauts

After a long day of walking and exploring museums, we headed back to the train station. The boys were exhausted and pretty quiet the whole ride home.

It was an awesome weekend, full of great family memories!

We thought would for sure Sam would sleep in the next morning, but as usual he was up early begging to carve open his very own dinosaur egg.

Future palentologist?

Can't wait for our next family trip!