Today there was a huge downpour of rain in Chicago. It looked and sounded like a tropical storm. We were supposed to attend the Midsommarfest in Andersonville (the historical Swedish neighbourhood of Chicago) at 11:30 a.m., but in view of the weather decided instead - upon Georgie's instigation - to visit the Science and Industry Museum.
We saw simulated tornados, lightening and tsunamis, went inside a real Boeing 727 airplane, visited a replica of Chicago's "Main Street" circa 1910 (and had time to go inside the cinema theater and watch a short film, and eat an ice-cream in the ice-cream parlor), saw one of the largest train models in the world (it was fun to watch all those miniature trains going by), went on a simulated trip aboard a real train, the Burlington Zephyr, the first diesel-electric streamlined passenger train in America, from 1934 (the design of the train was beautiful and set the trend for future trains), and visited a farm, where Georgie was able to milk cows (fake ones!), drive a tractor and a harvest-combine (real ones, but with simulated driving experiences).
At dinner, when we asked Georgie what she had enjoyed the most about the museum, this was her answer: "driving the tractor and eating ice-cream". Well, Jarl liked the tornado the most, and I liked the Zephyr. We spent more than four hours at the museum, so it must have really been worth, all that rain!
(L)
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