Day 39...Chicago, IL

We started our day with the intention of visiting two of Chicago's museums...the Museum of Science & Industry and the Field Museum.  We took the Metra electric train (similar to the LIRR) down to the Museum of Science & Industry first.  With our GoPass, we received admission plus tickets to the IMAX film Hubble, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio...fancy.  We decided to catch the 11:40 show, so we had about an hour to check out exhibits beforehand.  The museum was huge, but super crowded with school groups.  They had exhibits on everything from space, to trains, to farming, to weather and inventions...and on.  Science museums are my favorite, so I could have spent all day there.  After our Hubble viewing, which was excellent, by the way, we realized we would probably spend more time there than we anticipated...so, we've decided to hold off on the Field Museum until tomorrow morning before we leave.  We actually didn't leave until almost 3:00.  We headed out into the rain, back to the train station and found out our train wouldn't be arriving for a half hour or so.  Oh, well.  We finally made it back to the hotel to get ready for our trip to Wrigleyville and the Cubs game.

We had about a 20 minute subway ride to the game, so we left around 5:00 to head out.  After arriving in Wrigleyville (the whole neighborhood surrounding the stadium, filled with restaurants, bars and tons of Cubs merchandise), we decided to go to Goose Island for a pre-game beer.  Good stuff...Andy actually had a Bourbon County Stout, which was incredibly strong, but really, really delicious.  We headed back over to the stadium around 6:30 or so to take some pictures and walk around a bit before the start.

We actually had some pretty decent seats, but it seems that there aren't too many bad seats at Wrigley...what a great place to see a baseball game.  It was quite windy, but the rain didn't actually make it over that way, so we decided to hang out until the 7th inning and then head out to catch our subway back...but not before finding a real Chicago-style hot dog...yum.  We had one in Arlington, at the Rangers game, but you HAVE to have one in Chicago...amazingly, they aren't as easy to find as you'd think.  As far as the game, turns out it went into extra innings, but the Cubs won 4-2 in the 11th.