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!

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[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)

[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. :)

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

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