Hola! Aqui escribo este texto sobre el ultimo museo que hemos visitado en Chicago, el Field Museum de historia natural.
Hi! Here I write this post about the last museum we have visited in Chicago, the Field Museum of natural hystory.
Es quiza el museo mas grande de Chicago y suelen tener exposiciones muy buenas. Lo cierto es que no le dedicamos el tiempo que se merecia, asi que tenemos otra visita pendiente.
El dia de la visita compramos entradas para ver todas las partes del museo abiertas permanentemente y una de las exposiciones dedicadas a Genghis Khan, el gran emperador mongol. Habia otra exposicion de momias "Opening the vaults: mummies", pero no teniamos tiempo para ambas, asi que esa sera para la proxima visita.
It is perhaps the largest museum of Chicago and they normally have pretty interesting expositions. The truth is that we didn't dedicate enough time to visit the entire place, so we will come back for a next visit.
The day of the visit we purchased a standard ticket to visit the museum plus one of the expositions. We chose the one dedicated to Genghis Khan, the great Mongol emperor. There was another called "Opening the Vaults: mummies", but we didn't have time for both, so we'll do that one next time.
Thomas at the entrance of the Museum. It is a pretty impressive building.
Aqui esta Thomas a la entrada del museo. La fachada es bastante chula.
Aqui veis a Sue. Es un tiranosaurus Rex. No se sabe el sexo, pero lleva el nombre de la arqueologa que descubrio el esqueleto.
This is Sue, T-Rex. The gender is unknown, it has the name of the archaeologist who discovered the skeleton.
Una de las areas estaba dedicada a la entomologia. Estas mariposas me encantaron, otros bichitos, no tanto!
One of the areas was dedicated to entomology. These butterflies were beautiful, even though I didn't like other kinds of bugs!
Estas fotos son del centro de investigacion del suelo.
These pictures belong to the soil research center.
A parte de estas areas que veis en las fotos, visitimos una parte de Egipto y otra parte de mamiferos asiaticos.
Por supuesto, teniamos que echar la foto a la salida, las vistas desde alli son preciosas, al igual que desde el planetario Adler.
Apart from the pictures I've showed you, we also visited a part dedicated to Egypt and another one of Asian mamals.
We took pictures on the way out, the view from there is very cool. The same thing happens from the Adler planetarium.
Nos tomamos un buen vino español :) con el famoso "putin" canadiense y delicias fritas de garbanzo. Despues pedi una hamburguesa de ciervo y Thomas, tomo pato.
After the museum visit we went to "The Gage" for dinner. It was the second time we visited that restaurant and I really recommend it. It has international food style, the place is pretty modern and the service is very good. All the details will come in a next post I'm preparing about all kind of restaurants/bars and other places in Chicago.
We had a bottle of nice Spanish wine :) with a plate of the famous Canadian "putin" and chickpea fritter delights. After that I ordered a venison hamburger and Thomas ordered duck.
Cuando ibamos hacia el restaurante pasamos por delante de la estatua de Marilyn Monroe, mide mas de 7 metros y claro, me tuve que hacer la foto :)
On our way to the restaurant we passed Marilyn's statue. It is more than 7 meters high and I had to take this picture, of course!
Fue un dia estupendo, uno de esos domingos, el unico dia que tenemos libre a la semana. La verdad es que fue una semana muy dura por otros motivos y ese dia fui capaz de desconectar y relajarme para disfrutar del dia, aunque bueno, los problemas siguen, pero eso si, durante la semana :)
It was a wonderful day, on of those Sundays we really enjoy our only free day. The truth is that it was a very tough week and that day I was finally able of relaxing and enjoying the day. Problems still continue, but I leave them for the week :)
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