Believe it or not, there was more than just pop culture at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry...a lot more. I just love a great museum like this, all full of stuff you never knew you always wanted to see. There's one gigantic room devoted strictly to land and air transportation, and it's chuck full of actual airplanes, cars and trains. Leave it to Chicago to do this in a big way. In the center of the room there's a 3,500 square foot model train track, on which 34 trains speed their way through and above the busy streets of downtown Chicago, and out across the open plains to the west. Check out how neat those model skyscrapers are in the Chicago cityscape behind Sara and Zoe! That's a good representation of how tall the Sears Tower actually is (taller than Sara).
I could have spent a lot more time looking through the buildings into the streets of
Faux Chicago. Model train track building is probably the job that I should have aspired for in college. Strangely, that was never a choice in those
career choice computer programs. We couldn't spend too much time looking at our mini-Chicago though, because we had several hundred down-to-scale miles of farms to look at before we got out to the West Coast. Why are model trains so cool? It totally reminds me of that great episode of the King of Queens where Doug's dad lets him drive his train at the model train competition, and Doug ends up catching the
entire track on fire.
So we followed the trains all through the Great Plains and around the Rocky Mountains, and what should we come upon but a gigantic model of Seattle! What a strange coincidence that I had just gotten the confirmation phone call that we'd be moving to Seattle, and there in front of us was the trail from Chicago to Seattle. I can't speak for Sara, but I definitely feel that this was an omen. There was our future all laid out in front of us, and how could we question such a fabulous miniature version of the real thing? This was such a great day for us. Chicago has provided many a magical moment in our recent past, I very much miss that place.
Believe it or not, there was more than just pop culture at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry...a lot more. I just love a great museum like this, all full of stuff you never knew you always wanted to see. There's one gigantic room devoted strictly to land and air transportation, and it's chuck full of actual airplanes, cars and trains. Leave it to Chicago to do this in a big way. In the center of the room there's a 3,500 square foot model train track, on which 34 trains speed their way through and above the busy streets of downtown Chicago, and out across the open plains to the west. Check out how neat those model skyscrapers are in the Chicago cityscape behind Sara and Zoe! That's a good representation of how tall the Sears Tower actually is (taller than Sara).
I could have spent a lot more time looking through the buildings into the streets of Faux Chicago. Model train track building is probably the job that I should have aspired for in college. Strangely, that was never a choice in those career choice computer programs. We couldn't spend too much time looking at our mini-Chicago though, because we had several hundred down-to-scale miles of farms to look at before we got out to the West Coast. Why are model trains so cool? It totally reminds me of that great episode of the King of Queens where Doug's dad lets him drive his train at the model train competition, and Doug ends up catching the entire track on fire.
So we followed the trains all through the Great Plains and around the Rocky Mountains, and what should we come upon but a gigantic model of Seattle! What a strange coincidence that I had just gotten the confirmation phone call that we'd be moving to Seattle, and there in front of us was the trail from Chicago to Seattle. I can't speak for Sara, but I definitely feel that this was an omen. There was our future all laid out in front of us, and how could we question such a fabulous miniature version of the real thing? This was such a great day for us. Chicago has provided many a magical moment in our recent past, I very much miss that place.
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