Chicago Trip: Arrival + Day One

What was the first thing we did after arriving in Chicago yesterday and dropping our bags off at Jenise's brother's place? Deep dish pizza from Giordano's. It was delicious. It was pretty late afterwards so that was it for our first day here.

Today we spent the day at The Field Museum. The featured exhibition was Darwin. The neatest thing I learned was that he was sitting on The Origin of Species for over 20 years. He was hesitant to publish it for various reasons but he had no little choice after finding out that a fellow scientist was going to publish his version of natural selection.


We had planned to visit the aquarium or planetarium as well but we ended up spending hours in the Darwin exhibit (I had to read everything because it was all so good) and there was lots more to see in their permanent collections. Their most famous piece is Sue, the "largest most complete T-Rex in the world."

Once the museum closed up on us, I talked Kyle and Jenise into going somewhere we could watch the Major League Soccer Eastern Conference Championship. Good food, good drinks, and a good game. Unfortunately the wrong team won as New England beat Chicago. Ah well, neither of them are going to be able to beat Houston anyways!