Mother's Day Visit

My Mom came up to visit for Mother's Day and we had a wonderful time! We took a day to visit her college, Rosary College (now called Dominican University), in River Forest Illinois. She showed us her dorm building, the cafeteria, and some of the grounds. I have to say it is a lovely university with old architecture and a classic feel. After visiting River Forest we drove to the Museum of Science and Industry. Below are a few pictures of our adventure...


Mom's dorm building. I love all the ivy and architecture. Mom's old room was the second window on the right of the second floor, I think...


Posing in front of the front doors


The name stone


The other side of the courtyard.


We started our visit to the museum in the farm part...


Now the picture the girls cooperated for.


Rhianna showing Grandma how to do it.

Grandma had a better time than Rhianna. I think she's done this before.

There was a display explaining how our homes plumbing works.

It was actually pretty interesting.


Our favorite display - the Colleen Moore Fairy Castle

If you don't know about it check it out here

www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/fairycastle

You can see better pictures there too. It's really hard

to take pictures because the room is pitch black and

the lighting is really low. You probably aren't suppose

to take pictures in the first place...

The Foyer

The Music Room


Another view of the Music Room

The Dining Room


The Kitchen


This was part of the new Storm's exhibit.

You get to pull back the balls and let them go.

Takes forever to stop...


Rhianna playing with fire... she actually was!

This display let you see the difference between

a room full of furniture or empty burning and how

fast it all happened.


A cool picture of a flame being assisted with oxygen

and water spray with lasers illuminating the water.

Cool huh?


Isabela's favorite display!


You get to use pucks and use elements to make things.


She could spend all day there!


This is a jacket I will figure out how to make!
I love the style!


It's actually made to be fire resistant.

I don't care about that I just like the

way it looks!


Grandma in the wind tunnel


She's probably gonna kill me for this one

but she had a good time and I think this

shows it best.

May Field Trip

In May the girls and I headed to The Field for a field trip for school. We had a great time and looked at what we'd seen before through different eyes this time. We focused on the dinos and new Mammoth display. The Mammoth display was really neat but of course, I couldn't take pictures...

Here are a few pictures from the day.


Yes, the Blackhawks were at it again. Some of you may recognize this pair from another photo of mine that I entered in the "Capture Chicago" contest and had chosen to be in the book. Just a different angle this time...


Here is where we spent most of our time as this is what we were studying. We've been through this exhibits before but rally looked and read everything this time and came away with lots of great information!



The girls being silly standing in a dino footprint


It did, didn't it...


Rhianna was exploring some of the footprints a little closer


Isabela imitating a dino "ROAAAAAR"! Too funny.


We also explored the African exhibit for the first time. Lots of neat stuff here!


Of course I took pictures of the fish! They are Cichlids and look just like the ones we have.


More fishies.... Sarah would love to chase these!




This was a beautiful wall that I would love to some how incorporate into my home. Well, maybe not the one we are in now...