Fun in the Field

So me and most of my family went to Chicago on Monday for spring break, because we had nothing else to do and no money to go anywhere else. It was pretty fuggin cool if I do say so myself. We went to the Field Museum which kicks ass. After we hit the Field we stayed at a hotel. We probably should have just gone home, but I like staying at hotels.

There it is the Field Museum, the place to be for Dinosaurs, Mummys, and Dinosaur Mummys. We even had special tickets for the new "Dinosaur Dynasty" It was one of those Temporary exhibits. They had a bunch of Dinos from China, but I'll get into that later.

The Field is a really beautiful place, made even better by the fact you couldn't spit without hitting a Dinosaur, even on the first floor there were at least three that you could immediately see, Including "Sue" First thing we did was take a look at Sue, and visit her balcony right above.

I wont even explain this one. It speaks for itself.

We went to a boring Gem collection thing, I took some pictures but they all sucked. Most of the stuff was quartz anyways. After we had done the whole Gem thing we decided to go to the Egypt exhibit, my favorite. I love the place.



The jerkass in the blue shirt is my brother. I would have taken more pictures but there was an assload of people in the room, so I couldn't get a shot of the room without somebody's head in it. I was looking around when I saw a large crack in the wall. I couldn't see the inside so I decided what the heck and took a picture of it.

ITS A MUMMY!

You can also see another mummy through a glass covered hole. I took a picture of it, but its blurry since I had to turn the flash off, and other people without blogs wanted to take a look at the Mummy. Jerks. Total Mummy count: 2

After the main room you go into a narrow hallway stuffed with people and hieroglyphics. They were from a real Pyramid, so there were plastic shields in the way of the dirty skank hands of the thousands of people who walk through. Here's my brother deciphering the hieroglyphics.

"It says, 'here be Dragons' and possibly discount donuts"

Jackass.

Anyways, we went down a spiral staircase that I couldn't get a picture of. Down below the surface now, we went through a series of hallways that had a bunch of Egyptian stuff embedded in the wall. Including a MUMMY!

The tiny passage spilled out into a large room packed with Egyptian stuff, there was a small boardwalk, with little pictures of normal Egyptian life put into the railing. Every one we saw my brother said, Dude, is that, that (insert name here)'s 'junk' And indeed, it was his 'junk' So I took a picture of it, here they are in a collage.

Sick

There were also a bunch of stand up life size hieroglyphs of these Egyptian guys doing stuff. I didn't understand the point, but I'm not Egyptian or Japanese..They were pretty hilarious though, maybe unintentionally.

Times don't change much I guess.

Sorry, its an inside joke, go ahead ask me about it.

Around this time my camera totally died on me. But that didn't stop me from squeezing every last drop of juice that thing had in it. The rest of the pictures are taken super fast without flash. That's why they're blurry and generally crappy. There was a lot of cool stuff in that room, including...

MICHAEL JACKSON

I know you're thinking, he said lots of cool stuff, but this was just too good to not take a picture of. After we navigated through the room we ended up in the downstairs area. There were a bunch of statues that depicted nude men doing various things. Including this one. When my brother said, is that guy humping that pole? I had to get a picture of it.


There was this awesome machine that translates your name into hieroglyphics, we didn't have any one dollar bills so we went to McDonald's to break a five. Then we saw this.

I don't know what to say. This wall mural shows Ronald McDonald and his gang happily floating out in space without any protective equipment. I wouldn't have that much of a problem with this if there didn't happen to be a friggin pterodactyl in it. A PTERODACTYL IN SPACE.

WHAT THE FUCK?

After breaking our minds on this we went to the Dinosaur Dynasty. Apparently they found a bunch of undiscovered Dinosaurs in China. It was pretty cool, they had a bunch of complete dinosaurs there.

It was a pretty small exhibit, overall it was pretty disappointing, maybe it was just because the pyramid is so cool. We couldn't think of anything to do after that so we went to the Field Store, it was pretty cool. Even though everything was so expensive. I finally got this totally awesome mummy thing, I'll review it later. Well, that's pretty much it. Hope you enjoyed reading this unnecessarily long blog. If not, you can kiss my grits.

--Spencer