Fun in the Fall

Driving and being silly on the start of our adventure~

We made it!
Lunch time-picnic

Welcome to Starved Rock!

We had a great adventure! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Day in Chicago, Part 2-Beach

We left our car at the zoo and walked to some painted trees just outside the zoo for a picnic lunch

Then we walked to the beach

Walking over Lake Shore Dr. Very cool bridge!

The Beach!

I think it is so cool to be playing on a real beach in the shadow of skyscrapers. The building behind us with the two antennaes is the Hancock Building!

As you can see...we pretty much have the beach to ourselves!

That water is was cold!

boys working hard

The finished sand castle!

We had so much fun! Thanks to the Arnolds for the pails and shovels for our sandcastle and if you ever ocme to visit us or Chicago-plan a day like this into the schedule!

The ride home.... :D

Day in Chicago, Part 1-the Zoo

On Thursday we went to the Lincoln Park Zoo-it is the largest FREE zoo in the country. We paid to park and enjoyed our free fun!

A great fall day at the Zoo!

Joel getting a good view

At the Monkey house!
When you put your hands in the different prints, you can hear the monkey sounds and see where they live light up on the map!

I think he was ignoring us

Being monkeys

Sounding like monkeys

This monkey put on a show for us! Can you see that he is sucking his thumb?

Meercats and camels

The Giraffe came over and said hello

Bears and the boys in an Ant hill

This hippo put on a show for us-he swam around and came and looked at us, the woman who worked there said he *never* does that!


Cute boys outside the wolves habitat


We thought these fish were so cool!

The polar bear was the coolest! He put on a real show for us!

Here is a video of the Polar Bear's show: