Look at these beautiful rooms

Where could we have seen them?

Well, the next photo should give you a hint about what they are...

... miniatures. That's Levynn, peering into one of the 68 rooms in The Art Institute's Thorne Miniature Rooms exhibit.

We hadn't seen this section of the museum in any of our previous visits. Only recently did we learn that it's very popular, and Dad and Levynn have been reading a new novel called "The Sixty-Eight Rooms" about two kids who take a magical adventure into the exhibit and that has stirred Levynn's intense interest in it.

So Dad and Levynn got a first look today. We'll be more prepared next time, with notes about each of the rooms the kids enter in the story.

We also saw a short concert - Mazes - across the street at Millenium Park and bought our advance tickets for Taste of Chicago, which starts tomorrow.