Field and more eating

Chicago is a town I could be very happy in. For as much green space and walking, there is just enough eating. Maybe it would balance out right?? The public transportation is really pretty amazing. LA could really learn a thing or two.

One thing on my personal list of things to do was visit the Field Museum. I remember visiting the Field once in my life, in the 80s, the mummies though are something that I never forgot. I don't know why they interested me so much, maybe because they were so well preserved, the people we so small back then, the society sounded mysterious to me. I remember wanting to learn more about them maybe become an Egyptologist. (Too bad there was so much science to learn and then there are those tiny spaces to squeeze through)  I remember leaving there with a papyrus bookmark with my name in heiroglyphics. Basket, mouth, reed, leaf, running water. I really wanted to find that again in the bookstore.

The collection seemed much more extensive this time, a whole tomb recreated inside with a corridor leading to the permanent Egypt collection. 

We spent a little time in a fashion across the world through time, definitely a little more interesting to me than K.  Then roaming the halls of the different Native American tribal bands. Chevron was also popular in the late 1800s.

I could have spent forever there but there we so many things to see and of course eat.

We spent the rest of the time running around the city eating. Loved Blackbird, tried illegal in CA foie gras at Au Cheval (there was also another couple in the bar from LA, we toasted our forks of FG at each other) sipped drinks at the Violet Hour, and bought beef jerkey from Publican Quality Meats for the plane.

It wasn't enough time, but my waistline was happy to jump on the train to the airport. (BTW, Los Angeles is the only city I have been in lately that doesn't have a train to the airport, hint hint Metro)