A little time in the city

Today was our last day with our eldest home. Our Lady of BYU returns to Provo and her friends tomorrow. She's ready to go and that's truly a good thing. It's been fun to have her home and we wanted to do something today as a family. So we decided to go into the city, regardless of the weather. The weather looked good - not a lot of clouds and temp right about 30 degrees, so we were determined to enjoy the city.

Before leaving I discovered that Bank of America has some real boss program called Museums on Us. It's cool - on the first weekend of every month at all sorts of museums across the country, simply show your BofA card (ATM, Checking, etc.) and admission is FREE! Color me happy! Here in Chicagoland, it includes the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Chicago History Museum. It's really a cool deal and we decided to take full advantage of it. With three BofA cardholders and two with student discounts, this would be a great way to see one those places today.

We opted for the Chicago History Museum in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. We were really glad that we did. It was really fascinating. We learned our fair share about our fine city. Who knew this was where Ron Popeil ("Wait! There's more!") got his start? Same for the Pill. Who knew!

It got a thumbs up from the kids - the eldest declared, "I liked it and I hate museums." Whew!

This is when the weather turned on us. While we were in the museum boning up on our Chicagoland history, it turned cloudy, windy, and cold. Undeterred though we cruised down LaSalle to get some lunch. While I was unsuccessful in getting everyone convinced that bao would make for a good lunch, we wound up at one of our favorites, the Weber Grill. Thick burgers for everyone. It was even colder when we left so we did ditch the plan to walk Michigan Avenue - no one seemed disappointed. It made for a good day.

So now we're home. Laundry is getting done. Suitcases are getting packed as the oldest gets ready to go. It looks like it'll be a quiet night.

Diet Soda Withdrawl Update: Number of wicked, near vomit inducing headches: two so far; number of incidents of getting snappy/angry too quickly: too numerous to count; desire to mow through a Golden Arches Drivethrough for salvation: diminishing daily.