Chicago Part 3 of 3

Here we go again.  More pictures from the trip.

Papou and I took a trip out to the Brookfield Zoo along with a million other school groups and the hot sun.  The kids were a bit hot and whinny, but who could blame them, but we had a good time anyway.  We did find this small children's zoo in the middle of the regular zoo that was air conditioned and filled with cool exhibits.  Including this one where the kids got to pretend they were birds and sit on eggs.  They both really got into it.

Mette backing up to land on her egg. 

 Landed!

 Otto waiting patiently for his egg to hatch.

 Otto made a friend fast and they all got together to hatch eggs.

 Checking out some other nests.

 They had a room filled with plants and spray bottles for the kids to water the plants with.  Brilliant.  Otto would have been fine here for hours.

 Mette found a table with some natural blocks and started building.

 "Mommy take a picture of me with the Nunicorn", that is mette speak for unicorn.

 "no, see, it's a nunicorn, look at it's horn"  Of course, silly me!

 They even had story time!

 Share misters with Mette at your own risk.

 Rhino sighting

 After the zoo daddy was retrieved from the airport after his trip to L.A..  We meet him at the sushi restaurant for dinner.  Otto did not disappoint.  That boy packs away the fish and roe like it is his job.  He is amazing!!

 Roe.

 On Saturday we went to the Botanical Gardens which are nearby and really beautiful.

 Mette, catching up with Otto.  I love how she still has the head down running technique.  Otto has mostly grown out of that already...

 This is the best picture of the four of us we have had in a while.

 On Sunday our trip was almost over.  My brother who has been living in Chicago for the last six years has decided to come back to PA to work on his portfolio and prepare for grad school.  Since we were there with a car and an extra seat we offered to bring him back with us.  On Sunday eric and I picked up a U-Haul trailer, headed downtown and loaded him all up.  Monday morning the five of us set out for home.  This was my view for 13 hours as we made the trek.  Eric driving, Racer and his long legs up front while I manned the computers, toys and snacks.  Mette slept for 25 minutes in the morning when we got going and Otto was up the entire 13 hours!!!  Otto was an angel, Mette had her moments but they both hung in there and were in good spirits when we rolled into home at 10:30 monday night.

 The view out the back.  

It was a wonderful trip, even if the road home was long.