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I don’t have any great pictures to show for it, but we had a very exciting day on Friday. Here’s what Jennifer and Jenna, my girls and I did:

– listened to a talking donkey

– watched a train travel from Chicago to Seattle

– learned to draw Donald Duck

– stood in a vortex

– watched a chick hatch from an egg

– launched a hot air balloon

– looked at Mary Poppins’s real outfit

– created a tsunami

– bought ice cream from a robot

– touched a submarine

– watched the largest flipper machine in the world*

– drove a combine harvester

– played on a 727 

 

Can you guess where we were? 

 

We visited the Science and Industry Museum here in Chicago. 

* We were pretty pleased to discover a copy of this Swiss flipper machine that we love so much. There are only two of these machines and we’ve proudly seen both of them – one in Lucerne and one in Chicago. We feel it so deeply in our hearts when we find something that reminds us of our Swiss days.