Vacation Pix ...

Here's some pictures from the trip to Chicago ...

This is the main level of the house we stayed at (the second level, above the garage and sitting area and below the bedrooms).

The kids with a monkey at the Lincoln Park Zoo.

The kids monkeying around!

Family photo op.

Oops, I'm not sure why this didn't get rotated, but this is eating at the Italian style pizza place a couple of doors down from where we stayed.

Timmy with part of our appetizer.

Em and Tim sharing a malt at the Folk Festival that we happened upon.

The Chicago Field Museum.

Eating a snack with our friend the Brachiosaurus.

At the Field Museum ... looking toward the city.

The kids were fascinated by these globes at the Field Museum.

More at the Field Museum, this was an underground exhibit where you were supposed to be an 1/8th of an inch tall (or so).

Now at Millennium Park ... the weird beany mirror thing.

This was the big fountain thing at Millennium Park that the kids loved.

Buckingham Fountain.

Emma riding the El.

This is at the Kids Museum on the Navy Pier ... the kids building their own fountains.

More at the Kids Museum.

Digging for dinosaur bones at the kids museum.

This was a fountain thing the kids could play in at one of the parks close to the house.

Lake Michigan beach.

Emma trying on hats at Cracker Barrel (breakfast stop on the way home).

So that was our trip ... it was a blast!