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Day 69
Still buzzing after my whirlwind adventure of Chicago yesterday. Headed off to Union Station to catch the bus back to Michigan, with Noelle and Shannon, to spend the next 2 weeks checking out more of Midwest America. Bus trip was fantastic, basically a 4 lane highway all the way and 4 ...
The Windy City is Mighty Pretty....
... it.
The next day dawned grey and cool and we found a wonderful cafe up a side street for a fantastic breakfast - Granola, fresh raspberries, Eggs Benedict, toast - wonderful and then had until lunchtime when we were catching the California Zephyr overnight sleeper train across the plains of Nebraska to Denver, We decided on a ride on the "Loop" - Chicago's famous and iconic overhead metro. At least, that was the plan. When we finally found ...
Science fact
shopping at Sephora :) more con panels - Hubble Telescope talk with some fantastic photos including looking at galaxies 13 billion light years away (that means seeing them as they were 13 billion years ago just 0.7 billion years after the birth of the universe). I love being told amazing things and having it explained to me, so ...
Chicago Day 2
... of place in the main hall.
We, however, started on the Upper Level at Evolving Planet where there is a sweeping categorical history of life on Earth as we know it. I didn't know that historians and archeologists now classify life starting on earth from 4 billion years ago and reckon that we have had 5 mass extinction events spanning that time where up to 90% of life has been wiped out at any point. I guess if that is true then humans have ...
Our Last Day In Chicago & Our Flight Home
... for the last time, park the cars and walk down to the waterfront. We buy our tickets then have 90 mins to kill so we go to Nordstrom, an up market department store and spend some time buying a few little Chicago souvenirs.....it also got us out of the heat as yet again it was a hot one!
That now done it was time to board our boat. TJ, Maureen and I sit at the back of the boat out in the open so we can snap a few ...
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