Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Chi Town

At the Spokane airport waiting to get on the very long flight!
At the Field's Museum with Caroline.
This is how Maggie saw the first part of Chicago!
Lake Michigan from the museum!
Sue the Trex! So awesome!

All sort of "animals" to see.
Matthew's tiger impression
Playing at the interactive kid's center
Making hats

Making musicJess and I after Fogo de Chao
The boys!
Maggie and Auntie Agatha (who came with us...invaluable!) at Buckingham fountain.
Beautiful!

The best I could do:)
Ok here are the pictures of Moto. This was our edible menu.
Some courses I honestly have no idea what it was that I ate:) The alcohol pairings were really good.
This was their version of bubble tea. Scallops in a chicken broth of some sort.
This was my absolute favorite course. A "cigar" of green wrapped pork sausage with sesame seeds to look like an actual cigar! AMAZING!

That mushroom is freeze dried mushroom soup!
This was a savory cannoli. Mexican style.
This was "carrot cake". I broke it open and it was like molten cake but carrot. Bizarre but delicious.
This was something beet with chocolate nubs.
Entertaining ourselves with Auntie Agatha's bracelet on the plane ride home!

We went to Chicago last week for the AAPD annual meeting. It was VERY fun and surprisingly an extremely kid friendly city. Maggie was a bit of a wild card and didn't fly or sleep very well but Matthew was perfect and I want to take him back so I can finish doing all the fun activities with him!!! We ate at some amazing/interesting restaurants: Fogo de Chao (http://www.fogodechao.com/), Moto, Eleven, Yolk. We went to the Field museum which was AWESOME and I really wanted to go to the aquarium but it was so busy we couldn't get in. Here are some highlights. Not as many pictures as I wanted. All of the food pictures are from the 10 course extravaganza at Moto http://www.motorestaurant.com/ . Difficult to fully describe but it was a once in a lifetime opportunity! I fully recommend to anyone kids/no kids Chicago is a must see city!!!

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