Sue and Ted in their Native Habitat
On Sunday, we went to the Field Museum. Lisa wanted to see the Jackie Kennedy display and I’m always up for looking at mummies and shrunken heads (not part of the Jackie Kennedy display, I should add), so off we went.
The Kennedy display was interesting, although I learned more about designer clothing than a middle-aged heterosexual guy should really know. There were lots of film clips showing Jackie on the campaign trail with JFK and on her tours of India, Latin America, and elsewhere. There was also an extensive display of letters and material associated with her White House redecoration projects, accompanied by video clips of the White House tour she gave for CBS TV. The end of the exhibit showed some of her post-JFK efforts of architectural preservation in New York.
Afterwards, we spent some time in awe of Sue, the largest and most complete T Rex.
Following that, I got to experience a piece of my childhood when we walked downstairs and the familiar smell of melting plastic reached me. The museum has several Mold-A-Rama machines, where you can spend a buck and get your choice of a red T Rex, blue Triceratops, green Apatosaurus (what we called in the Sinclair days a Brontosaurus), or yellow Stegosaurus. Presumably, these were not their natural colors. Then again, nobody was around to see, so the Mold-A-Rama people may have been on to something.
We scored a T Rex and Triceratops and named them Sue and Ted. here they are reading about how they were deadly enemies in their days on what is now part of South Dakota:

We took the tour of Ancient Egypt, and then decided to call it a day at the museum.
Lisa had her first experience with hot caramel corn from Garrett’s on State Street, and then we walked over to First National Plaza to look at the Chagall. I snapped this detail of the mosaic as the closing photo of the weekend: