We were dropped off at Union Station yesterday afternoon and spent the rest of the day trying to master the public transit system so we could use it with ease. Then we checked in to our hotel, ordered pizza, and had a fat, junky night.
Today we were good little tourists and I used my training in subway usage (thanks to parental lessons from San Diego, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Toronto) and we got around just fine.
We went to Shedd Aquarium, glanced at the bean in Millenium Park, wandered around the Magnificent Mile, ate sushi on said Mile, then slowly walked around and found our way back to the hotel.
It's been good, here. I like this city.
This is Jay and Jessica, two of my three current companions. Dear, dear Chicago.
These three pictures are from the aquarium, our big event of the day. I was the nerdy science kid who kept getting excited and rambling about my limited knowledge of the physiology of a few species. See? That's an adolescent male dogfish, because look at the size of his ventral claspers. And His external gills look like that so he can do countercurrent exchange and get enough oxygen, since he has a single circuit circulatory system. Not to mention my long and jumbled lesson about the lamprey and three or four outbursts of I'VE DISSECTED THAT or THAT'S CALLED ITS OPERCULUM. I shouldn't have, I know. But it's exciting to know things. Or, rather, to know that I knew things at one point during the last semester and that they are still partially intact.
Anyway, here. I took them through glass, obviously. It was good. Tomorrow we go to OHare and do the international part of the trip. To Amman--
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