Lincoln Park

Hace un par de semanas tuvimos un dia de fiesta, ya que se celebraba "Labor day" aqui en los Estados Unidos, asi que ese dia lo teniamos libre! Oh Dios mio! tres dias libres, un fin de semana entero sin trabajar! que ibamos a hacer? habia que planear algo, jeje!! aunque relajado, eso si! Asi que planeamos una visita a Lincoln Park en Chicago, un parque donde hay un zoo y un jardin botanico, todo ello gratis :). Ese dia fuimos a comer a una casa de pancakes aqui en Evanston (lo reservo para el texto de comida/restaurantes) y una vez con fuerzas, jeje! cogimos el tren en direccion Lincoln Park.
Labor day was celebrated two weeks ago here in the US, so we had a free Monday! OMG! three free days! one whole weekend without working! what were we going to do? we needed to plan something to do, hehe!! but still, something relaxing. Finally, we decided to go to Lincoln Park in Chicago, a public park with a botanic garden and a zoo, everything free :). That day we went for lunch to a pancake house (I'll write about it in a post dedicated to food/restaurants) here in Evanston and once we ate, we took the train to Lincoln Park.


Primero visitamos el jardin botanico, mucho mas grande de lo que yo esperaba y con una variedad increible de flores y plantas exoticas. Thomas hizo unas fotos geniales con su camara, asi que por favor, no olvideis visitar su blog: tmhermans.blogspot.com.
Aqui podeis ver algunas de las fotos que yo hice con mi camara digital, es una pena que no se pueda captar toda la belleza de las flores, eran preciosas.
We first visited the botanic garden which was a lot bigger than what I expected and with an incredible variety of exotic flowers and plants. Thomas took many great pictures with his camera, so please don't forget to visit his blog: tmhermans.blogspot.com.
Here you can see some of the pictures I took with my digital camera. It's a pity I couldn't catch all the beauty of the flowers, they were really awesome.


Despues de ver las flores fuimos al zoo y la verdad es que me sorprendio ver todos esos animales en un parque publico. Aqui podeis ver algunos de los preciosos animales que hay alli, aunque para ser sincera, siempre me da mucha pena ver a los animales en cautividad... Despues de esta visita a Lincoln Park volvimos a casa contentos y relajados, preparados para empezar otra dura semana :)
After looking at the beautiful flowers and plants we went to the zoo that was next to the botanic garden and to be honest, I was very surprised to find all those animals in a public park. Here I show you some of the species that can be found there, even though it is always sad to see animals in a closed space and not in their natural habitat. After this visit we went back home happy and relaxed, ready to start another hard week :)