Summer Roadtrip!

(still in development - need to add photos)

The trip to Minneapolis was super quick and not the official family vacation.  We ended up in Chicago in late July.  The goals was a vacation we could drive to and attractions we could use our Morrill Hall membership to enter without paying extra fees.

We left Lincoln around 8 am on Tuesday, July 30.  We arrived at our hotel in time to take a little walk over to Lake Michigan THEN we took a longer walk than most wanted to do to a used book store and stopped for supper at XX on the way back to the hotel.

On Wednesday we drove to the Field Museum and were there for the 9 am opening.  I really can not describe the size and enormity of the building; there were different species to more animals I could have ever imagined.  After lunch we headed over to the Adler Planetarium around 2:15 pm. 

Leaving the Planetarium we walked to a nearby sandy spot for a little play time.

Supper at ???


On Thursday we drove to the Museum of Science and Industry and was there for their 9:30 opening.  Again, enormous in size.  We left around 4:30 pm and drove to Gurnee, Illinois for the night.

On Friday morning we ventured to Jelly Belly in Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin.


Then onto Kenosha, Wisconsin were we visited the XX Museum, had lunch at XX, and then walked up the step to the top of a lighthouse. 

On Saturday we stopped by the John Deere Historic Site where we happened upon a tractor show similar to a car show.  Folks from around had brought their tractors for others to see and enjoy.  The Historic Site had a blacksmith shop - the blacksmith made a nail for us and we watched them make a coat hook. Ralph enjoyed staying behind and watching them at work.  From there we stopped in Moline, Illinois at the John Deer Pavillion and then made our way a community pool in Muscatine, Iowa (they had slides) and then to a new Drury Inn in Coralville, Iowa to spend the night.

Sunday, after breakfast we headed back to Lincoln.