This was our first official week of summer. It's started out pretty busy but we made time to visit the Adler Planetarium downtown. It was free all week so we expected it to be pretty crowded but it wasn't too bad. Several YMCA camp groups and such but overall not so bad. The first thing we did was watch the movie called Cosmic Collisions. It was a screen above us and around us and it was pretty interesting. Here we are waiting for the show to begin.
The goofballs were acting like they were aliens or something in space. It makes me laugh to think they are almost 2 years apart, you'd never guess it.
Earlier in the week we went to the mall and the kids talked me into a visit to the candy store. They got gummy rats, snakes, centipedes and all sorts of gross things. What's wrong with plain old gummy bears? I didn't let them eat all of the candy in one day so they took their snakes with them and ate them at the planetarium.
Notice this scale shows Maddi weighs 9 pounds. That's her weight on the moon. Oh how I'd love to weigh my moon weight!
"Moon jumping"
One of the things Cade wants to do when he grows up is be an astronaut so he was excited to see the NASA spacesuit.
After we had our fill of the planetarium we enjoyed Lake Michigan. I just love downtown Chicago and the lake and all the big buildings. The kids seem so small compared to the view. It's too bad summer has forgetten to visit Chicago this year. It was June 10th and we had a high of 68. It was even colder by the lake, not sure how cold but I was freezing! The kids weren't cold and had a blast running around and playing hide and go seek in the rocks outside the planetarium. We had to get back home for Maddi's dance, but next time when it's warmer we'll have to bring swimsuits and enjoy the beach right next to the planetarium and make a day of it.
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