Sue the T-rex!

Over the past few years we have done a few trips "across the pond" to the US. And as we are kind of not looking forward to the actual traveling back and forth we decided to try to fly nonstop as much as possible. This is a good way to shorten the time you spend waiting in airports :-)
Chicago is one of the cities from where you can fly nonstop to Stockholm, so this is one of the places we have ended up a few times before flying home. Every time we decided to stay for 2-3 nights to be able to look around and rest a bit before flying.

Chicago is famous for many things, including the big lake, deep-dish pizza, the Chicago Cubs and Oprah. But one of my favorite things is to visit The Field museum and say hallo to Sue the T-rex! 

The Field museum is located in an area called The museum campus on South lake shore drive in the center of Chicago. Just as you can suspect from the name there are other museums in the area and it is super easy to get there by car, boat, bus or just walking. The Field museum was built in the 1890´s and focus in nature and culture. A few of the permanent exhibitions include The Ancient Americas, Hall of jades, Evolving planet, DNA discovery center and Inside ancient Egypt. They also feature a bunch of 3D movies and temporary exhibitions.

But our favorite, as most other visitors, is of course Sue the T-rex! She is the largest and most complete T-rex ever found and she is on display in the big entrance hall of the museum. You 
don´t have to buy a special ticket to see her and learn more about her.  When you move up to the first floor you get another view of Sue. She is magnificent and a bit scary!

It is actually her bones on display, well most of them are the real deal. The scull was to heavy so it´s a replica, but the real scull is on display close by and you are able to get really close only separated by glass. 

Every time we do a stopover in Chicago we visit Sue the T-rex and every time she just amazes us! Well worth a visit if you are in the neighborhood. Don´t forget to tell her we said Hi!