The Field Museum is Totally Free Range

The Field Museum rocked!   We went there twice.

It was very inspirational.  Anna spent the first day telling me how she was going to go to all of these places and see all of these things.  We both agreed that perhaps the best way to do that was to become David Attenborough.

The next day I had to assure her that there were still fossils to be found.  She was glad to hear that because she had decided make her own museum just like the Field.  She won’t be starting out with quite the same endowment.  Perhaps one of you would like kick in a few hundred mil.  Above is an awesome display of the evolution from dinosaurs to birds.

Here’s Anna doing her best Parasaurolophus.

Of course we went to the Art Institute.

Here’s Anna with Grandpa.

The Art Institute has a great web page that allows people to make their own web gallery of your favorite paintings.  Check out Anna’s favorite paintings here:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/forward/emailref?path=node/14527

Check out My Favorites here: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/forward/emailref?path=node/14915

Have you had that experience of not getting a famous painter until you see their work in person.  It was Winslow Homer for me.  I’ve seen his paintings in books before and went, “Ho hum.  Kind of drab.”  Well oh my gosh!  This guy is unreal!  Check out The Herring Net in my gallery.  This was painted in 1885!  He didn’t take a picture and go back to his studio to reproduce it in paint.  This is from a snapshot in his mind!  I about started talking louder to be heard over the wind and felt like wiping the salt spray off my face!

Anna became the free range city girl.

and we went to the Shedd aquarium

but best of all we saw family.