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.

Museum of Science and Industry Visit

On March 12th we headed to Chicago to spend the afternoon at the Museum of Science and Industry. That evening was a special Member Night for the newest exhibit, Science Storms. We checked out some of the exhibits we missed the first time we visited in December and still haven't seen everything!

The first exhibit we saw was "You, the Experience". We checked our pulse, saw what exercise can do for you, made a commercial and Wayne checked his brain.

Isabela seeing what her pulse was and how her blood flowed through her heart at her pulse rate.


Wayne checking his brain


Some fellow visitors enjoying the movement display


Rhianna seeing how exercise effects her in the hamster wheel




Wayne and Isabela's commercial for bottled water

The transportation wing

Chicago - The Train Model

Isabel and Rhianna flying a plane together

Wayne playing too

Of course a picture or two of planes

The entrance to the transportation wing

Rhianna steering a big ship

Isabela checking out her favorite ships, The Santa Maria, The Pinta and the Nina




Rhianna found the legos

St. Louis in Legos. cool how the light looks like the moon or at least I think so.


Chicago in Legos






Rhianna found a cow


While Isabela found a tractor




So did Wayne

They even have fake corn fields

And you can milk a cow

Me and the girls

You can find more photos of our adventures at

Museum of Science and Industry