Day 4: cheese country

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So we set off Friday from Pittsburgh and drove all the way to South Bend, IN where we spent some time wandering the Studebaker Museum. After we finally found it, that is. The address in our book was wrong, I guess they had moved to a different building and not called the Lonely Planet people. So after driving up and down the streets of South Bend (really cute town by the way) we called the museum and they directed us there. It was cool seeing the history of the corporation and the evolution of the vehicles. We then discovered the South Bend Chocolate Company which had finished tours for the day but we poked around the "chocolate museum" amd bought a few goodies to eat on the way to Chicago. Then we headed out for the last leg of the trip - to the Chicago/O'Hare Super8 motel. Our room was huge and we had to park my bike IN the room with us because parking was in a low-ceiling garage.
Saturday morning we woke up early and took the motel shuttle to the airport. From there we bought two-day metro passes and hopped on the train to downtown Chicago. The ride was almost an hour long! It felt like forever before we got into the heart of the city. Our first destination was the Field Museum. It was too big to see everything and still have time for other places in the city, so we saw animals, dinosaurs, and a special extra dino exhibit. Devin loves dinos and knew the scientific names of all of them before we got to the placards! We also headed downstairs to the underground exhibit where they "shrunk" us down to 1/100 of our size so we could go underground and see roots, ants, and worms. Next we wanted to go to the Shedd Aquarium but the line was soooo long we left it for Sunday. Instead we went to Millenium Park to see the cool ampitheater that looked somewhat like an exploded tin can. We played with our reflections in the cloudscape sculpture "The Bean" We hiked, starving, for a million blocks to the super McDonalds that was two stories, had a latte and gelato bar, and looked like a space station. But we didnt want to eat McDonalds so we kept walking and found the Weber Grill Restaurant. The burger I had was maybe the most delicious ever. After that we took a train and a walk to Astor Street in the Gold Coast to see some old houses designed by famous architects. After that we rested our aching feet at the Loew's theater and watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3. Finally we went to the John Hancock building at 10:30pm to see the whole city from 94 stories high. It was pretty to see the lights lining the streets and the darkness of Lake Michigan.
It's time for me to run, we're on the way to Milwaukee now. I'll post again soon with more and I'll try to get some photos on, too.