Saturday, September 28, 2013

Rockford & Chicago IL

We were able to explore a bit of Rockford's Riverfront Museum Park on a beautiful Saturday morning before wedding rehearsal started.
Apparently our filter (or lens) has some fuzz we didn't know was on it!
Rockford has a pretty neat natural history museum.  They have an adolescent T-Rex fossil skeleton they call Jane.

And some really neat triceratops fossils too.  This near complete skeleton is Homer.

There are no museums like this here in PDX so it was fun.  We were pretty amazed!

The finale of our weekend in IL was a quick trip to the Windy City for an architectural boat tour.  We heard from many people that it was their favorite thing to do when in Chicago.  Since we had a very limited time, we decided to give it a try.  The weather was PERFECT!  It was a great day to be on the river.
Here's the tallest building in North America.  The Sears...no...wait...the Willis Tower.

And the view of the city from where the river goes into Lake Michigan at Navy Pier.

Such a whirlwind of a trip.
Hopefully we'll get back to Chicago again at some point!
Maybe a house on the lake with some Cubs baseball and deep dish pizza.  Anyone want to join us?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would like to go. Mom has (had) family in Chicago and Danville (south of the city). Winnie

Anonymous said...

Been there twice for work - both times snow on the ground. They say there is lots to see and do there (other than utility companies & industrial plants. lol). Your pictures are great and it looks like you all had a great time - even though it was a whirlwind trip. Our little man is turning out to be quite the traveler! Hugs, Grammy

Mom said...

We love CUB baseball!Count us in.!XOXOXOXOXOX