Chicago to Bloomington

This morning over breakfast, Brian looked up free days at Chicago museums and we learned that today is a free day at the Field Museum! Josh and I said goodbye to our hosts, packed up, and drove into the city. I wish that we had had more time to spend with Brian, Trish, and Zeke... they are such a cute family! Especially Zeke; at one point, Trish called us Mr. Josh and Miss Megan, and Zeke repeated that to us every time we saw him. :)

The Field Museum was pretty cool, but I'm very glad that we didn't pay. The Horse exhibit that is advertised all over Chicago actually was not included with the free ticket, but we were content with the regular exhibits.

After a few hours exploring the museum, we were hungry! Our last thing to check off on our Chicago to-do list was eating a Chicago-style hot dog. We bought two from a vendor near the museum, and wow, it was delicious! A Chicago-style hot dog is a kosher beef hot dog topped with yellow mustard, chopped onions, sweet pickle relish, big tomato slices, pickled hot peppers, a dill pickle spear, and celery salt. I cheated and didn't eat my hot peppers, but the rest of it was really great, definitely something I want to make at home!

After eating our lunch, we drove to Bloomington, Indiana, where Zack is going to law school. We got into town in the evening and Zack made us a delicious dinner of salmon and vegetables. After dinner, there was a hilarious series of events that led to the three of us discovering Zack's roommate's security system. His roommate is out of town for the week since it's Indiana's spring break, and we accidentally learned that he has a motion sensor light and webcam pointed directly at the door to his room! Josh and I thought it was hilarious, but Zack didn't think it was so funny!