We spent the morning at the Museum of Science and Industry, went back to our room for a nap, and then to the CIBC Theater to see Aaron Sorkin's take on "To Kill a Mockingbird". The traffic on I-90 was amazingly turgid.
One of Dick's fond childhood memories is going to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago several times with his dad. Today we spent about three hours there and saw a number of interesting exhibits. Here are a couple of pictures of the outside of the museum.
There was a large (costing extra) exhibit on Pompeii and Mt Vesuvius. We took a few pitures.
The Blue Paradox exhibit describes the looming international tragedy of plastic garbage. It is choking the ocean and micro-plastics are now found virtually everywhere. The had pictures of places around the world that are trying to deal with this problem.
There was a room in the exhibit that was completely covered from ceiling to floor with video displays. I took this picture to show that the floor tiles are essentially video screens.
They had a number of railroad cars and a huge model train layout. The Zephyr (silver one) was the fastest passenger train of its time (1934). The small yellow steam engine is the earliest actual steam engine that ran in the United States. It could go up to about 25 miles per hour. Here is a picture of a small portion of the model train layout.
There was an exhibit that creates a vortex of steam. Bruce took a picture of the fan that creates it.
I-90 was stop-and-go for most of the way between our hotel and downtown. Going home we took Lake Shore Drive most of the way instead and crossed town on surface streets to avoid using the freeway. There were many boats along the shore in several locations.
We had dinner at a German restaurant suggested by my friend Fern. I tried the whitefish. The part that I liked best was the polenta that was under the fish.
We had purchased tickets for Aaron Sorkin's new play based on the book and/or film of To Kill a Mockingbird. Richard Thomas played Atticus Finch. The play was very well done. Photos were prohibited. Coming back to the hotel around midnight we figured that we would just take I-90. It was still highly congested.
Finally, at the end of the day, we only put in 72 miles.
