University of Chicago

Saturday June 26th we took yet another trip to Hyde Park and this time visited The University of Chicago's campus. Hands down the coolest/prettiest campus I have ever been to. All the buildings are really old and castle looking. We feel bad for the students that go here though because they are here mostly when its cold so they can't really enjoy all the beauty.

Oh and here's Kelsey on the way to the campus.

 

Kelsey loved it too because she didn't have to sit in her stroller. She just ran and ran and ran.

She kept running away and then she saw me taking pictures and ran back yelling "CHEEEESE!"

This quad just yelled Harry Potter!

Everything was just beautiful. The doors, the walk ways, the archways, everything

 

Their version of the duck pond. I think BYU could learn a thing or two

 Just more beautiful buildings and chapels.

My favorite stop on the campus was the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The outside wasn't too grand, but the inside was really pretty.

You can see a million beautiful buildings in a morning, but when it really boils down to it, nothing NOTHING is more exciting than an ant!

 After a stop at Subway for lunch, we headed over to the Museum of Science and Industry. Again. We needed to go again because we only covered the first floor last week. There are three floors to this place and no we didn't get the third floor.

The second floor was kind of dedicated to kids so we stayed there most of the time. They had a circus section, a farm section, a jungle gym, and an I spy section. Kelsey loved this floor. We had a hard time getting her to leave.

Circus 

I Spy: This was a hallway of rooms set up like the I Spy books and then each one had a sign outside of the room with things to find. We couldn't stay too long to find everything in every room, but it was really cool.

Children's play place area: This place was AWESOME!!! If Hyde park wasn't so far away, we would go every day. It was a "science section" and so everything was hands on. It was so awesome and like always it was impossible to catch with the camera! Ethan and I may have had more fun than Kelsey.

 

The farm section was super cool too but no pictures.

 

After we let Kelsey have some fun, we went to the U-Boat section and oh my goodness! It was AWESOME!

These are the clips of the amount of ships destroyed by U-Boats and the years they were hit.

They also had a whole section about the Waves. Gramma Wilson would have loved it. They showed everything they did, how they were recruited, and how important they were to the Navy. They also had some really cool posters for the Navy. I'm pretty sure none of them are originals but they were still fun to cool at.

Then we made it to the U-Boat. It was suprisingly small and very interesting. Dad would have loved this!

This is an original depth tracker that they would use.

An original gun from the U-Boat

A misel

An original Natiz flag flying on the U-Boat

Torpedo

The flag that was flying on the ship that captured the U-Boat on display

On the way home we drove by the Obama's house which is right down the street from the museum. It was crazy! I've never seen a presidents home before but I didn't expect this. The whole street has a barricade with only an opening for one car. Like giant cement blocks. I'm sure their neighbors hate it! It was super hard to capture as we drove by.

Here's their street and the security car in the opening facing the street.

The whole block leading up to the street had these signs and fences. I mean they aren't trying to keep it a secret where they live, but just keep people away.
We think this is their house. Very not Chicago by the way.

The day was great but it was tiring so when we got home it was nice to just hang out and watch the world cup.