Chicago - Monday

Ready for another beautiful day!

 We started the morning at Navy Pier to ride the humongous Farris wheel.  Lily was super excited.  She kept sitting against the side peering over.  We had to remind her to stay away from the door.

 Mia wouldn't let go of my hand.  She was so nervous but she loved it!

 Ryan took this panoramic picture from the very top of the ride.  Beautiful!

 Taking a quick break after the Farris wheel; how cute is she?

 Grandpops treated us to the Children's Museum.  They had a cool circus exhibit going on.  My little trapeze artist.

 Mia enjoyed this spinning circle.

 Mia LOVED the extremely loud horns.

 I thought this statue was funny so I made them take a picture.

 Magnifying her big blue eyes.

 Both girls enjoyed the "tiny treasures" part of the museum.  Everything was the perfect size for them, and they pretended to bake, sew and all sorts of things.  It was really fun to watch them explore.

 A little bowling while at the museum.

 Digging for dinosaur bones was a big hit.

 The last exhibit we visited was the water station.  They had all sorts of fun things to do with water...pump it through pipes, make it rain, have it splash in many different directions and dam it up; both girls really enjoyed the paint with water wall though.

 We stopped for a few minutes to snack on Garrett's popcorn while we waited on Jan, Nick and Brock to join us at the pier.  When they arrived, we took water taxi over to the Field Museum.  Another awesome panoramic by Ryan.

 Sue, the famous T-Rex inside the museum.

 We wandered around the museum for awhile before it was time to head back to the hotel for nap time.  Mia got a lift on the way home because as she said "My shoes are so tired."

After our naps, we met back up with everyone for dinner at Lucky Strikes which was a fun time.  The girls had taken so well to Nick and Brock; they loved hanging out with them!

We headed back to David and Jan's for more chocolate cake (seriously, so good) and then it was back to the hotel for bed time.