The kids were enthralled with the Mars Rover when we first walked in. Robots are huge with Nathan anyway.
There were some exciting displays to check out.
Dream big and maybe someday…
This astronaut was on the ceiling over my head so I had to grab a picture. Lindsay and I tried to imagine what it was like to be in space inside one of these capsules.
Amazing to see this set up.
Tristan and Nathan pose next to Nathan’s favorite planet; Saturn. The boys have a model Solar System hanging from their bedroom ceiling these days and Nathan recognized this planet right away.
We moved on to World War II displays; I imagined my grandparents being young men and women back at that time and suddenly got a feeling of how fast time really goes.
There was a submarine; we did not go inside as it cost extra money and we had more than enough left to see. I have a son who would like to go back and explore inside of it. We looked at the outside of it as we passed it by and it was huge.
There was an area where eggs hatch and little chicks can be watched during all of the stages of hatching to running around and eating to falling asleep mid-track. They were so cute and I had several younger children trying to cut through the thick crowds in order to see these little guys. Adorable. Tristan now wants chickens in our backyard.
The boys went upstairs to go and check out this airplane. Rick and I were finding it a little difficult in this part of the museum to keep track of all five kids! I found myself doing a head count more often than enjoying the exhibits.
Nathan was excited by this train and wanted to go home to find his toy trains again. Kaitlyn was reminded that her cousin Porter loves trains and went to find a post card to send to him of a train. On the right this tornado in the middle of the hall got our attention.
I went to go listen and watch as my older children asked questions and participated in trying to stop the tornado’s rotation. Tristan and Lindsay stuck together on this venture.
Rick found his favorite animal and he stopped to pose with it. Nathan and Kaitlyn found a cow to climb onto for a picture… that was a lot of fun being “allowed” to climb on something.
The boys got excited about climbing up into a tractor.
Lindsay and Haley marveled at the tire size on one of these things.
This area was a fun hands on place for young ones especially.
Nathan had a lot of fun, especially with the water to the point of being dangerous with it at times. I tried to keep my distance. Then Haley took off with my camera since hers had a dead battery and entertained herself quite well in this area but did stop every so often to check out her cute little brother.
Yup! Haley did have fun with the camera.
There was so much to look at and so much to do and we were running out of time.
Kaitlyn and Nathan pedaling on the left in the water area. Then Kaitlyn and Lindsay check themselves out in the silly mirrors.
Then the boys discovered the silly mirrors too. They sure made Kaitlyn laugh.
Haley poses with the cool Slinky that Lindsay found. The gift shop was a dangerous place for Haley to enter… or maybe it was safe… she had NO spending money left but just a few dollars for dinner on the way home.
I will admit that she found some good T-shirts. In the end she decided to borrow my camera again and take pictures of them since she couldn’t buy them; a creative solution that made her dilemma acceptable to her.
I bought some Rock candy for Nathan and Kaitlyn and surprised them out at the car with it. After tasting some of Nathan’s I decided that next time I’m going to buy myself some of that candy too. I’m more of a chocolate person usually but this was YUM!
The museum was near closing and we had a long drive home ahead of us so we said goodbye to Chicago until next time; whenever that may be. We had a fun time there and it was a nice break to just go and do something fun.
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