The perfect Chicago day

Yesterday John and I went to the city to get our Field Museum and the Shedd Aquarium on. It was such a beautiful day to be outside and walking around in the ever-wonderful Chicago. We pretended to be dinosaurs and learned a lot about evolution at the Field Museum. We saw a replica of Sue’s head (not to scale), went into the pyramid/mummy exhibit (kind of lame), and then went to THE GIFT SHOP! It was like the whole trip was for the gift shop. We got a dinosaur poster, a pasta server rightly named Pastasaurous and two dinosaurs made of stone. They’re pretty awesome. I was having my triceratops bounce around my legs the whole ride home; John didn’t even notice but that's probably because we were listening to Jimmy Buffet.

Then we walked over to Adler to get our stars on but they were filming American Idol or something there so it was closed. We got free passes to come back AND we saw a Monk just chilling on the waterfront. He was on a smartphone so I’m not sure what level Monk he was. Maybe it’s the equivalent to me being a yoga person because I wear yoga pants when I can’t find any clean jeans to wear. There were all these super buff and intimidating looking bodyguards protecting the soon-to-be American Idol contestants. I didn’t realize that show was still on. I stopped watching after Season Two when Clay lost.

So we went to the Shedd Aquarium and were debating on if we wanted to pay extra to see sharks and stuff. We paid extra. We got to see dolphins and belugas and otters (which were otter-ly cute—see what I did there?). We snuck into the Jellies exhibit where I finally got to see JELLY FISH up close! Those things are super freaky and so incredibly awesome and weird. They have no blood or brains or nervous system. They’re just, like, there; which makes them creepier in my opinion. The sharks were seriously cool. John was making my heart melt with trying to get a good picture of them. They were moving way too fast. He loves sharks so much it makes me kind of obsessed with them too now. I'm so jittery to finally go shark diving!  

Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.  

We headed over to the lakefront and sat and were all cute and adorable. My hair was all over the place and annoying but the view was incredible. Sitting there was probably the most peaceful thing I’ve experienced. After we laid in the grass and just watched the water, we went to Bacci’s pizza and ate the BIGGEST PIECE OF PIZZA I have ever witnessed. It was amazing and delicious and I gained 4 pounds eating it. Then blah blah blah, I had rehearsal for improv and then out for drinks afterwards. Overall, it seriously was the perfect day.

We found this photo booth in the parking garage. You just take a picture and they email it to you for free. Clearly, we were the only ones incredibly impressed by this event.