Field Museum Adventure

Hello again, everyone! Nyamo here. Today's post is about my trip to the Field Museum in Chicago. I visited the museum with some friends during their Spring Break. It was a lot of fun. I was really excited to see some dinosaur fossils!

Here are some of the fossils that I got to see. There's a mammoth fossil on the left! I'm glad they were just fossils, though, seeing just how big they were was a bit intimidating for a cat like me. =^.^;=
There was an exhibit in the museum with giant arthropods. Creepy!

This was possibly the best part of the trip. I got to meet the coolest mouse I've known: Lincoln F. Mouse. I ran into him at the gift shop looking a bit bored and asked him if he wanted to join in on my museum adventure for the day. I was glad he was up for the adventure. It's always fun making new friends.

We stopped a bit for sandwiches at the Corner Bakery in the museum. It was so good. Mm... if only they had some tuna, then it would have been amazing.

We lost Lincoln for a bit and I was worried that we wouldn't be able to find him. Looked like Sue found him before we did, but luckily we got there in time to get him out of there. Whew!

There were two brothers working on a neat art project on the second floor of the museum. I stopped a while to watch one of them working. They used a curved canvas and their special viewing device to see a "ghost" image on the canvas that they would trace using micron pens. It was really neat! Maybe I should start an art project sometime, nya.

Gift shop time! One of my friends found this neat pirate shirt but it was a little bit too big for me. I guess I'll have to stick to shopping at the nearest Small and Short store for now.

Overall, it was a great day for adventuring. The Field Museum was so huge! I think I'll have to visit it again to see more of the exhibits that I missed along the way.

~ Nyamo

St. Patrick's Day Adventure

Nyamo here again! It's been a while since my last post but that's because I've been really busy adventuring around Chicago for the past couple weeks. Most of my adventuring downtown started on St. Patrick's Day two weeks ago. I heard from a friend that they always dye the Chicago River green to celebrate the holiday and I just had to see for myself.















There was a lot of waiting that morning. I had to wake up early to find a spot in the crowd with a good view of the river.















Luckily, I made a few good friends while waiting. They were just as excited as I was to see the river being dyed! I wish I asked this guy where he got his cool shades. =>.<=















I found a leprechaun that day too! But he wouldn't tell me where his pot of gold was. =T_T=















There were a lot of mounted police near the river that day. I almost thought I was in Canada for a minute! =^^;=















Finally, a green river! It was really exciting when they finally came around in the boat with the dye. The whole crowd was going wild! I really hope I can see it again next year!!!

~Nyamo