On December 31, Wes, his dad, and I went to the King Tut exhibit at the Field Museum here in Chicago. Wes had seen this exhibit at the same museum when he was four, and I'm pretty sure I saw it at a Smithsonian in DC when I was young, also. The exhibit was leaving January 1, and Wes's mom got us tickets for Wes's birthday, so we took advantage of this leisurely diversion from a new apartment full of boxes. The Tut exhibit was great but pretty crowded, despite the timed passes required for entry. After seeing all that is Egyptian and golden, we hit some highlights of the main museum, including Sue, a full dinosaur skeleton, two full-size taxodermied elephants, and an exhibit called "Evolving Worlds" or some such thing. It had lots of fossils and skeletons and information on species that had gone extinct. Downstairs, we also got a photo of Wes with the famous Lincoln Park gorilla, Bushman (now taxodermied). The three scariest things encountered at the museum: 1) a display of shark teeth; 2) some kind of horrible eel, like the kind that appears in Princess Bride ("Hear that princess?"); and 3) being abandoned by my husband for a good 30 minutes while I sat on the bench where I'd last seem him, hoping he'd come looking (in his defense, I'd wandered 10 feet away, and he headed out thinking I'd impatiently moved to the next exhibit, which it's not unheard of for me to do). Now with the Field Museum done, we've hit pretty much all of the major Chicago museums.
On December 31, Wes, his dad, and I went to the King Tut exhibit at the Field Museum here in Chicago. Wes had seen this exhibit at the same museum when he was four, and I'm pretty sure I saw it at a Smithsonian in DC when I was young, also. The exhibit was leaving January 1, and Wes's mom got us tickets for Wes's birthday, so we took advantage of this leisurely diversion from a new apartment full of boxes. The Tut exhibit was great but pretty crowded, despite the timed passes required for entry. After seeing all that is Egyptian and golden, we hit some highlights of the main museum, including Sue, a full dinosaur skeleton, two full-size taxodermied elephants, and an exhibit called "Evolving Worlds" or some such thing. It had lots of fossils and skeletons and information on species that had gone extinct. Downstairs, we also got a photo of Wes with the famous Lincoln Park gorilla, Bushman (now taxodermied). The three scariest things encountered at the museum: 1) a display of shark teeth; 2) some kind of horrible eel, like the kind that appears in Princess Bride ("Hear that princess?"); and 3) being abandoned by my husband for a good 30 minutes while I sat on the bench where I'd last seem him, hoping he'd come looking (in his defense, I'd wandered 10 feet away, and he headed out thinking I'd impatiently moved to the next exhibit, which it's not unheard of for me to do). Now with the Field Museum done, we've hit pretty much all of the major Chicago museums. 
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