Day 22 - Chicago

Our final full day - breakfast at Yolk on Michigan Avenue before strolling to the Field Museum , the Chicago equivalent of London's Natural History Museum. On the way we walked through the edge of Grant Park and saw the Agora leg sculptures and the final marker post of our Blues Highway trip: Blues Trail Marker
Journey's end.

We had read in advance that the Field Museum was good for half a day and planned to visit Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation museum, site of the old Chess Record label studios, in the afternoon. That will now have to wait for next time as the Field Museum kept us occupied for the full day. Highlights?

• Jan got to see some (stuffed) Passenger Pigeons Once the most abundant bird in North America, they became extinct in 1914 following a remarkably speedy decline in numbers
• Seeing Sue the T Rex dinosaur and the associated Waking the T Rex: The Story of Sue 3D movie and all the other various dinosaur exhibits
• The reconstructed pyramid and associated Egyptian exhibition
• The story of America's heritage from the original settlers, thought to have crossed from Asia, to date

We had dinner at the Eleven City Diner - great Jewish menu and food but the waitress must have been having a bad day. Perhaps she is the daughter of a taxi driver (see below)?

When we visited Chicago 7 years ago we put this in the blog:

"We had only been in Chicago for 36 hours but all four of us felt that it was a city that we would return to without a moments hesitation - warm, friendly people (except the grumpy tax drivers), fantastic architecture and just too many places to see in such a brief stay."

Well, we've had another good go at it - tomorrow, before we head to the airport for our flight home, we plan to visit The Art Institute of Chicago but it will still leave us with plenty to do and see should we be fortunate enough to visit again.