Lincoln Park Zoo

While sight seeing in Chicago last month, my mom and I spent the better part of a day at the Lincoln Park Zoo.

It's a great place and even better that admission is free (I'm still not quite sure how they manage to function without I guess major sponsors or subsidies from the City?)

Here are are a number of photos from the trip to the zoo.


This guy was really interested in the birds in the trees.

The otter was soooo fast! I took probably over 30+ photos and this was probably the best of the bunch though still pretty blurry.

A lot of great sculptures throughout the park.

The Children's area had this fantastic climbing structure indoors. I'm sure Finnegan and Keira would have had a blast on it.

This silver back ape weighs in at over 400 lbs.

Finnegan's favourite animal (at the moment) is the rhino.

Flowers - lots of beautiful flowers in the conservatory.

I promise I did take some more pictures of animals. I love photographing flowers because unlike the animals they don't move (except on really windy days) so they are so much easier to capture.

Can you tell that I liked these particular water lilies?

OK back to the animals now!

The tail end of the polar bear was all we were able to see.

I think these were African Wild Dogs - what amazing coat colouring the have!

All in all a great day at the Lincoln Park Zoo!

Fluevog Shoes Chicago

On the weekend that I was sightseeing in Chicago with my mom, after the IACUC conference, we went spent most of one day strolling around the Wicker Park area and then going downtown to walk the Magnificent Mile and along the Navy Pier.

Along the way, it was a pleasant surprise to come across Chicago's Fluevog shop. While it wasn't on my "must get there and check it out list" of things to do, it was most definitely a fun place to visit.

Crazy tourist that I was, they didn't mind me taking a few photos to post here.

The store was amazing. As I recall it was an old theatre that had been renovated for the shoe store.

And of course, the shoes were truly awesome - unique soles for unique souls.

I did try on a few pairs but unfortunately nothing fit as well as my Angel's at home to temp me to buy anything that day.

If I had actually won the "No, You're Weird Contest" then I certainly could have been persuaded!