Day 5 in Chicago

This is the last posting on our Chicago trip. This is what we did Friday, October 5, 2007. We drove the car to downtown Chicago again, of course Bryan drove. Then I drove from the campus to a parking garage at the Shedd Aquarium. That was enough driving for me. Then i walked from the parking garage up t the campus to pick Bryan up around noon when he was to be done. it is about 2 or 3 miles, which is not too bad...but the humidity was AWFUL!!! I don't know how much I sweat that day! But it was good exercise!
This is a picture of the street that you have to cross to get to the Chicago campus. We thought it too good to pass up! After I parked the car, I began walking toward the city again and this is the view...can you see all the sailboats parked in the harbor? I thought it was so fun too see! We were walking right along the coast.This is the famous Buckingham Fountain. But as you can see in the next picture, they wont let you get too close!
There is a fence all the way around it. I guess for security reasons...But it sure is pretty!It started to rain as we were leaving this fountain, and so we ducked into a parking garage and talked to a couple people while they waited it out too. It was not more than 15 minutes of waiting...it was still sprinkling as we walked, but it wasn't too bad

This is Kambria playing in a fountain at the Vietnam war memorial, that we found as we tried to avoid the rain. It was a fountain more her size anyway!

Then it started to rain on us again, so we snuck into a dunkin doughnuts place and got a muffin and some OJ. And waited it out, again. By this time we had to book it to get to the campus in time...we walked so fast that we even had some time to check out the local Gap store. The Bryan called and we went to the Disney store. Good Thing Kambria is not old enough to want anything thing from there yet. Then we went and bought Bryan a Northwestern hoodie sweatshirt and a textbook...yeah fun! Then we were headed to the aquarium!!! That is where Bryan wanted to go since he found out there was one in Chicago!

So the next couple of pictures are from the aquarium.
This is the baby beluga! It was only born on August 16, 2007. It was quite fun to watch and sing the baby beluga song. We ended up getting Kambria the book Baby Beluga...that was our "big" purchase from the store. ;o)

This is Kambria and I watching the dolphinsThis is Kambria clapping for the dolphin show!Bryan and Kambria watching the sea lion coming out to say hello. This is the sea lion showing us his tricks.This is a jelly fish! they were way cool to see.
The Family in the aquarium! They wouldn't let you use a flash so this was as good as it got!
This is a komodo dragon lizard. He was HUGE!!!

And this is the fam just outside the aquarium. It was worth the money and i am glad that we went. Especially since Bryan could see it with us too.

And the last picture of the exciting week...the soap at the hotel...it had Kambria's name on it! Except for the "c" of course, but it was as close as we had ever seen! Maybe our next kid will be Taylor? I don't think so, but you never know.

And to finish the trip off, the rest of the story....

When we got up Saturday morning and drove to drop off the rental it took twice as much time due to figuring out the whole flat tire reimbursement! What "Cheryl" told me was it was no big deal, they would just take the charge off from the cost of the rental car. Well since we went through hot wire, supposedly the deal was already a closed one and so there was to be no refund! OH my!!! I was ticked! I know it was not that much money, but the fact that Cheryl had told me to do it. So I left and got on the bus and waited for Bryan so I would not say something I would regret. Well Bryan was polite enough to work it through...30 minutes later...good thing we were not in a rush to get to the airport!!!! So what ended up happening was that we were to get vouchers in the mail for 30 toward our next rental....ugh! not what i wanted!!! Who knows when the next time we are going to rent something! but whatever right!!! Right! So we made it home safe and sound and the rest is history!!!

on a side note...we just got our credit card statement and budget refunded $27.80 on our card!!! Now how hard was that!!!!! some peoples kids!!! So I hope you have enjoyed our little Chicago journey! We sure did...

And to make it clear for everyone... while in Chicago, Bryan and I decided we liked it enough to make it the school of choice. So Bryan turned down California....sorry Kristy...and accepted Chicago. So he starts school on Nov 5 online until march sometime. Then we will move out there sometime in April so he can do the on-site clinical portion of the school from May5-June 27. Then we will move again to wherever he finds a residency at...which we have thrown around the idea of St, George UT. but we will not know that for quite some time! Thanks for indulging my long windiness and pictures!