Chicago - Seeing the Sites (both Tourist and Construction)

Bryce and I went to Chicago last weekend. Bryce had a tall buidling workshop in Chicago, and airfare was cheap so I joined him. Work covered the hotel room, and it happened to be Free February, so most of the museums were free too! We saw the building expansion that he worked on at the Art Institute, and went to lots of great free museums and the (not-free but worth it) Shedd Aquarium.  Everything was great - dolphins jumped, penguins waddled, T-Rex roared (ok, well, almost)... Well, Bryce getting sick and throwing up wasn't great. But, that was short lived.

Vote!

It’s election day! Well, for 24 states it is, at least.  I managed to mess up not just my absentee ballot, but Bryce’s too, so we both headed off to the polling place to file provisional ballots this morning.

 

NPR has a really cool interactive map that shows when all the primaries are scheduled and which candidates won past primaries.

Recommended Reading

Our house is very excited about all the attention that Chris (our housemate's boyfriend) is getting, since his paper about how hummingbirds make their chirp was published. He was even on the local news!

From the BBC:

** Hummingbird 'uses tail to chirp' **

Researchers [read: the guy that comes over to dinner at our house a couple times a week] using high-speed video say a species of hummingbird "chirps" by using its tail feathers, not its throat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7216230.stm