Frabjous day!

[vulgarweed]

I got to meet the lovely ithilwen and her parents. We had lunch at the Signature Room, on the 95th floor of the John Hancock building. Can you believe I've lived in Chicago 18 years and never been there? It's really the kind of place you go with out-of-town friends.

We saw peregrine falcons flying by!

Then we spent the afternoon at the Field Museum, which always makes time fly by like nothing else. Ancient Egypt. Mammoths and mastodons! Sue the T-Rex on 3D! Creepy old taxidermy! (That and the T-Rex film made me feel really carnivorous, I think. Must tear meat with teeth! Does passenger pigeon and California condor taste like chicken? Mmmm, bison.)

So when we went to Heartland Cafe for dinner, I had a bison burger. And there I got to meet the lovely deborah_judge, who is a brand-new Chicagoan.

Thank you, all of you, for the fantastic day!

Comments

[persephoneflame.livejournal.com]

Did you see the anamatronic Sue? Because as much as I was all 'look at the silly robot dinosaur!', it still made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

(I love the Field Museum so much)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

NO! We had a ticket for it, but by the time we got there, it had already closed even though the museum was still open for another half-hour. :(

Next time.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they ripped us off. I wish they had posted that robo- Sue's hours were shorter than the regular museum hours. But I guess the price of seeing robo-Sue would have been missing out on the creepy stuffed birds, so it balanced out in the end.

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

What, you, Sara Paretsky, Obama and now Deborah? More and more reasons for Chicago to be my favourite American city - in spite of the fact that I haven't been there yet. :)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, if you ever get a chance to visit, you'll be very very welcomed!

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

It was indeed a fabulous day! Thanks so much for spending the day with me!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! I hope we get a chance to do that again soon.