Museum-hopping, Day 1

Chicago's large museums have a lot of free days here at the beginning of the school year, perfect timing as Lincoln re-adjusts to Levynn's absence. We're planning to take him to Adler Planetarium and The Field Museum soon, and today Dad took him to Science and Industry.

Evidently, we skipped or missed quite a bit during our previous visits there, including the model ships,the Idea Factory play area, and the coal mine. So it was anything but the same old, same old.

But first we came across an apparently wounded, or at least not well, butterfly on the sidewalk. We moved him to the grass, and Lincoln thought that was the same butterfly we saw flying moments later across the street and then again nearer home later in the day.


Then we saw this mailbox. Dad didn't think these were still around!









Above and below are parts of the Idea Factory, a large space just for kids. It's neat.





This is how we finished our visit, down in the coal mine, billed as 600 feet below the ground. You can imagine this stuck in Lincoln's head for a while!