Four Stars

Have you ever been to the Chicago Children's Museum? If you are ever neat Navy Pier, I highly recommend you go! (of course, only if you have little ones) It's free on Thursday evenings from 5-8, and every first Monday of the month. It's worth the drive, and even worth the $22 parking. (well ... almost.) The kids get the thrill of "going into the city," they get to see Lake Michigan, and boats (if you're there in the summer, anyway), and it's all very exciting. While we were still driving on Lake Shore Drive, my daughter spied the ferris wheel and exclaimed that she could see Great America!! It was so cute, but I had a hard time convincing her that it was not Great America, and actually at the same place where the museum was. She was a little suspicious at first, but finally decided I must be telling the truth. lol.

Our whole day was very exciting. We had the car, for starters. (wooo! Living high, now!) SOOo, after we dropped my husband off at the train station we went home to prepare ... The day started with a matinee showing of Monster House. I was a little nervous it would be to scary for my daughter. [I discussed it with sister-in-law #1, who is a first grade teacher --meaning she has a good handle on alot of child psychology issues AND was going along with us. I discussed it with my husband. I read what Wikipedia had to say about it. Wikipedia gave me some hesitation, but we went anyway.] I wasn't worried about my son. He's still pretty young, and highly amused by animation in general. I also knew that the "big screen" would likely captivate him. I was right. It was a hit. I asked my daughter, later, if it was too scary. HA! She couldn't even figure out why I thought it might be scary, and asked if we could buy it for home. So much for all my worrying.

After the movie fun, I drove to the mom-in-law's house and picked up sister-in-law #2 and went into the city. My husband was working close to Navy Pier, that day, so he walked over and met us at the Museum, after work. We played. We ate. We drove home. Good times. Good Day. Four Stars.