We arrived in our final city on our trip on Thursday morning - we'd reboarded the train at 10pm Wednesday night, got settled into our cozy cabin, and fell asleep until morning. We awoke with the sunrise over the farm fields and pulled into Chicago's Union Station around 10am.
We spent a day-and-a-half in Chicago - the rest of the day Thursday and Friday until our flight left O'Hare at 6pm. Highlights included:
1. Museum of Science and Industry. Lots of neat exhibits, including a coal mine, a model train exhibit that traces a track from Chicago to Seattle, genetics, ice, etc. Unfortunately, the museum was TEEMING with elementary school field trips, so we wound up only spending a little more than an hour in the museum, but then went to find some geocaches in the park outside.
2. We went out to a new park (in Chicago, "new" is defined as anything that wasn't there when Mary Jo and John left in 1993) in the lake that used to be a little-used airfield. It juts out into the lake behind the planetarium, and there were some neat geocaches out there.
3. Friday morning, we went to the top of the John Hancock tower to see the views
4. Finally, we took an architecture tour of the el stations in the loop. We had a great guide, and learned a ton about the development of the L and the design of different stations.
By 3:00 we took the train out to O'Hare and flew home. All in all a great trip!!
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| Our spacious accomodations on Amtrak! |
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| Henry in the train corridor |
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| Getting off at Union Station |
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| Model train exhibit at Museum of Science & Industry - Chicago |
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| Model train exhibit at Museum of Science & Industry - Seattle |
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| Henry at Science & Industry |
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| Geocaching at Science & Industry |
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| Chicago Skyline |
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| Geocaching |
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| View from Hancock Observatory Deck |
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| Architecture Tour of El Stations |
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| Architecture Tour of El Stations |
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