We woke up to 21 degree temperature. It was cold so we decided we’d go to the museum of Science and industry. The problem was, we didn’t really know how to get there. We needed to get our metra cards to be able to ride the L trains. We googled the closest station. It was about a 20 minute walk so we bundled up and headed out.

When we got to the station there was no attendant. Luckily I saw a guy going to catch the train and asked him where to get the cards. It was another 20 minute walk to a bigger station.

We made it the other station, got out cards and hopped on the blue line. I had a map of the routes, but we still didn’t know which one would take us to the museum. We ended up choosing the red line until some man asked us where we were trying to go because I’m sure we looked extremely lost and confused. We told him and he said the bus takes you right to the museum. I said, where do we catch the bus? He said, it’s too late now so when you get off the train you need to walk really fast because it’s a super sketchy part of town. Yay!

While we were on the train we decided the green line would get us closer. So green line it was. Yeah, it didn’t. We ended up walking through some slightly iffy neighborhood, through the University of Chicago campus, which by the way is gorgeous. I’m horrible at remembering to take pictures and Donny had my phone with the GPS trying its hardest to get us there.

After walking 8 miles total we finally made it to the museum. The temperature was 30 degrees.

The museum was huge. We saw as much of it as we could, but what we saw was impressive.

We took an Uber back to the Airbnb and the driver took us by Lake Michigan. Seeing a great lake has always been on my bucket list and of course, I didn’t get a picture. I would have loved to have gone swimming in it, but I’ll save that for another warmer time.

The kids had never been to a concert, so a few months ago we got tickets to see Colony House at house of blues. To say we were a bit worn out with all the walking we did would be an understatement, but we were really looking forward to going.

Waiting for the show to start. If you wonder why my kids are rarely in the pictures, it’s because they are teenagers and don’t like their pictures taken.

Little Image opened the show. They’re a band out of Dallas. I thought they were really good and would go see them again.

The place went nuts when Colony House came on. Everyone was jumping up and down to where you could feel it in the floor. Such a great concert and would definitely go see them again.

It was a full day. We didn’t get back to the apartment until midnight. Time to rest up for day 3.