After a good long morning nap for Cristiana and a nice long relaxing bath for mommy, the girls headed out to play at the Field Museum of Natural History while daddy worked hard at the Tribune (picture on bottom right). We caught the subway and a bus, which Cristiana seemed to really enjoy doing, and spent a few hours just walking around and looking at all the exhibits. My main reason to visit the Field Museum was to see the actual skeleton of SUE the largest and most complete T-Rex that has been discovered. During my 1st internship at Animal Kingdom one of our locations as Education Presenters was at the SUE replica that is located in front of the Dinosaur ride. So after educating guests about this Dino for a whole semester, I figured I would have to pay the real thing a visit during my trip to Chicago. But the highlight of our museum visit was the kids area. The Crown Family Playlab is located on the ground level of the museum and it is just a super cool area for kids to play and explore freely. Cristiana really enjoyed being able to roam around freely (after being on mommy's back the entire time) and also touch everything without being reprimanded. There's a small interactive exhibit on how the people in a village make corn and Cristiana enjoyed climbing in and out of the windows rather than the normal entrances of course and grabbing the soft "corn" and putting them on the floor; but she later came back and picked up her mess (that's my girl!) We spent a lot of time in their music room where they have instruments from various countries; Cristiana really liked the bells, "xylophone", and the hand drum. They also have a small forest exhibit filled with small jackets that the kids can wear that resemble animals (Cristiana wasn't impressed with them, but I was). Though daddy was not able to join us, I did take pictures of the beautiful Bear's Stadium (Soldier Field) for him, which was right across the street from the museum.

Cristiana and I had a great time, and though mommy lost her transit card on our way back, we were still able to get back to the hotel (Thanks to a very nice man who gave mommy his card with enough money to catch the bus back to the train station to buy a new card).

Cristiana really enjoyed spending her time at the hotel making a mess as always and reading her books while sitting either on the sofa with no cushions (they were under the crib mattress to help short mommy) in her car seat, or next to the window (pictures found on day 3). As mentioned previously, Cristiana's nights were starting to get worse and we definitely started to feel it on night #2, I guess she was starting to miss home.