May 21, 2013
Chicago Act 3
After a delay, these posts are finally getting enough time around internet to get posted!!
Today again began
with a delicious breakfast provided by Sister B, this time Waffles with bacon
and eggs. But before we even had
breakfast, we had our second run-in with the alarm system as Eric headed out
for his run. We quickly got it shut off,
but not before it tipped off the security company. That was normal procedure though and we got
it taken care of. While eating
breakfast, Sister Bourgeois sat and talked with us. We just simply talked about her kids, our
life plans, etc. She also gave us
suggestions for our day in Chicago. We
got ready and headed down to South Chicago for the day. We had taken our time getting ready and
didn’t make it there until about 12:30.
After a brief stop by US Cellular field to attempt all day parking, we
ended up continuing on towards the Museum of Science and Industry. It was a bit pricy (18 bucks…), but it was a
fun museum. We headed straight towards
the Submarine/ WWII exhibit, which was neat.
After that, we hit up the space travel wing, did a little flight
simulation, etc. They have a giant dome
in there where they show movies, but it is old school and still running on
film. Since it is so big, they are giant
film reels weighing over 200 lbs each.
So I got to see that running, but from the back side- I didn’t actually
pay to see the movie, so I couldn’t go in!
Speaking of which, they charged extra to see the movie and to go onto
the U-boat (submarine), which we think is stupid, so any chance Garrett got, he
asked employees “Is this free? Or is there an extra charge for this, too?”
hahaha
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| hanging out in the bunks of the sub exhibit |
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| Garrett and the U-boat |
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Me and Garrett doing a sub simulation, trying to
launch the sub out of water... #fail |
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| The eggs hatching |
After the outer space place, we hit up the
chicken hatchery, which was cool. We were able to see 3 little baby chicks get
out of their shells as well as a couple dozen of the little 2-3 day-old chicks
running around in the next incubator over.
We checked out the genetics section and the futuristic stuff (like this
awesome music table that operated by reading blocks we put on a table. It was
like the ultimate daft punk mix table. Haha Ill try and get the video I took up
onto the YouTube. It was neat-o). About then we lost Taylor, but tracked him
down half way across the museum. He told
Hayley he “got distracted” and accidentally wandered away to the weather
exhibit. Haha The weather place was cool,
as we got to play with quick-sand, avalanches, see how tornadoes, tsunami’s,
etc. work. As we made our way towards
the electricity/ lightning part, the announcement to head towards the exit came
over the speakers. Dang. It was only 4:00 and we were anticipating another
1-2 hours there! Apparently they always close that early. So we headed to a pizzeria to get dinner, a
nice Chicago style deep dish, of course.
We headed straight to the ballpark right after dinner.
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| the boss music table |
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| Dinner- Chicago style pizza! |
When we got in,
it quickly became apparent that it would be hard to do our usual ballpark tour
around the stadium. There were no
exterior concourses and only ramps to the levels, with walkways into the inner
concourses, which were guarded. No one could even access downstairs without a
downstairs ticket. How lame. So we headed upstairs and hung out behind
home plate for a few innings, got pictures with the mascot. We found our favorite concessions man of the
whole tour while we were up there. Let me paint this picture for you: A middle-aged
white hot dog vendor with a big black beard comes in. He sounded so dumb at first, as he came in
with a voice that could pass as a Napoleon Dynamite impression, but we soon
realized he was very sarcastic and knew exactly what he was saying. He started with “I have Hot Dogs.” And waited
a bit before receiving no response. We
were already giggling because he just had zero enthusiasm. But then he proceeded, “It’s 5 dollars and 50
cents. I also have ketchup…… Mustard if you want that…… How about Napkins? I have some napkins if you
need.” Haha I lost it when he said he
had napkins. This guy knew he wasn’t
getting anyone to buy a hot dog and was just enjoying being goofy- something I
can relate well too.
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| View of downtown from the ballpark |
There was a way cool view of downtown from the
balcony, so I stepped out there to take a picture. Eventually we decided to take an upstairs
tour to make up for the fact that we probably wouldn’t make it downstairs, so
went to left field to get a picture. While we were out there, the White Sox pitcher
gave up his first hit. He had carried a no-no
into the 7
th inning, so we joined in a good standing ovation for his
effort. We tried our luck and headed
downstairs to see if there was any chance they weren’t guarding the gates anymore,
or possibly to try and sneak in. We
realized that neither of those were gonna happen! Luckily it was already the bottom of the 7
th
inning and people were leaving, so I started asking people if they would give
us their tickets so we could get into the lower level. Everyone we asked was okay with that and we
went in without incident.
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| the organist and a reflection of her view |
The stadium
organist has the best seat in the house, sitting right behind the lower seats
with a private box straight behind home plate.
I stepped in and talked to her about the organ and the live game production,
as I am a part of that for most sports at BYU and we got a picture with
her. We took a picture right behind home
plate then headed down to left field.
Right after we sat down, it started to sprinkle and immediately half of
the stands emptied. We got our left
field picture right by the pole, and then headed to centerfield.
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You cannot tell, but it started
pouring soon after this |
It was slowly starting to rain harder and by
the time we settled in beyond the right field fence, it started coming down
good. It was the bottom of the 8
th
with 2 outs, so only 4 outs remained in the game. If they weren’t so close to the end, I am
pretty sure they would have called a rain delay. But they didn’t; they stuck it out. We stuck it out, too. The best play in the rain was a deep fly to
left where the player slipped on the track but caught the ball as he was
falling! We bounced as soon as the final ball was caught making the game final. The White Sox beat the Red Sox 3-1. We headed back to the Bourgeois place for one
final night, getting in around 11:30. We
successfully set off the alarm one last time, this time we think it was Hayley,
but we aren’t really sure why, because she didn’t open a door. She just walked up stairs and probably got
caught by an indoor motion detector.
Sweet beans. Early morning
tomorrow. Headed to OH CANADA!
Toronto. Get some. Out.
Stats:
Miles Traveled today: 120
Hours in the car today: 2.5
Miles traveled total: 2065
Hours in the car total: 37
Narcotic searches: 2
Jumbotrons: 1
MLB Baseballs: 1
Scoreboard:
Garrett 4-0
Eric 3-1
Mitch 2*-2
Hayley 2-2
Taylor 2-2
*Correctly predicted the Dodgers beating the Brewers 3-1
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