A Kiwi Visits Chicago

We headed up Magnificent Mile (or Michigan Ave, so named for the shopping) to the Hop On Hop Off bus tours and bought an all day pass for US$25. With this we got a full tour of the city on an open top bus and can (you got it) hop on and off wherever we choose. But first, armed with Chicago City Pass booklets which gave us discounted admission at a bunch of places, we popped up to the 95th floor of the John Hancock centre for a view of the world.

But a view is a view, so we boarded the bus on this gorgeously sunny morn and hopped off at the Field Museum where the largest Tyranasaurus Rex named Sue (after the woman who discovered it) is standing in the atrium. Her head is in a glass case on the 2nd floor however as it’s too heavy to be displayed with the skeleton. (more)