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March 17, 2007

Firsts

Adam was on spring break this week, so Friday we finally had a family outing. We decided to take the train into Chicago to take the Bug to the Field Museum. She was great on the train, and really seemed to get a kick out of it. We see so many trains around here, and she's always excited when we see one, so it was quite a novelty to actually RIDE on the "people train".

The first thing we did at the museum was sit down and have some lunch, then it was off to see the dinosaurs. The Evolving Planet exhibit they have there right now is very nice. I get really excited about all the fossils. They have so many beautiful fossilized plants, fish, and animals in those big slabs of limestone. Stuff like this (image from fossilmuseum.net)

And of course, my favorites, the trilobites.

They are 2-dimensional, yet so sculptural. And the scale of some of these things was just really awe-inspiring. Lily wasn't quite as nuts about the dinosaurs as I thought she would be. In fact, in the main hall, Adam was trying to show her "Sue," the T. Rex, but she just wanted to squeal and point at the elephants. Fair enough. The one thing that really got her attention though was the psauropod footprint they had beside the Apatosaurus family skeletons. You can touch it (or stand in it, if you're a child). I thought we were never going to get her out of there. We had to go back three times so that she could sit in it.

Soon after that, she fell asleep in the stroller, allowing Adam and I to browse some of the other exhibits at our leisure. We had a really good time, and I think we may end up getting a family membership there, as there are a few temporary exhibits coming up in the next year that we'd really like to see.

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