In the afternoon, we headed for the Nature Museum in Lincoln Park. We saw frogs, and turtles, and many different kinds of snakes indigenous to the state of Illinois.
The second floor of the museum is home to the "butterfly garden", where you can observe, become mesmerized and seduced, by hundreds of multicoloured butterflies flying around your head. We were so distracted we forgot to take a picture, so I leave it to your own imagination.
But Jarl took a picture of me and Georgie pelting the sample of the fur of a real polar bear (huge! and they wrote that it was only an average-sized bear...). What struck us the most is that in the middle of all that white, there were actually many black and brown hairs. And the hair was coarse, not fluffy at all, and like a thick mesh of cotton just above the skin; sure to make a nice warm coat for those arctic nights.
(L)
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