remembering sunday

brrr...i just done bathing,now i'm snuggling on the couch with torto,writing this blog.and the b&j strawberry cheesecake is seriously addictive!! i need her to share my ice cream with me,if not i'm gonna finish this whole tub off!

so here's how i spent my sunday last weekend to sum up a productive,tiring Independence Day holidays.

the weather's really beautiful last sunday, it may be a hot with the sun glaring angrily on us,but we're Malaysian, we're used to hot and steamy weather.hehe.but it's not that hot, still got the breeze from Lake Michigan to cool us down a little bit.

*nasi lemak,nasi lemak* (random people shout when they saw a Malaysian in Chicago)
heheh.

our first stop that day is the Shedd Aquarium, which has once been the biggest aquarium in the world.it's a long walk from the Union Station to the Museum Campus (which includes the Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and Field Museum of Natural History), but at least we got to enjoy the sun after a whole week of overcast and gloomy weather. once we reached there,we saw this long,long queue to buy the tickets to enter the aquarium.haiihss.

super-long-queue in front of the aquarium

After 20 minutes and still not moving an inch, we decided to buy the City Pass for $69, which includes the tickets to the Aquarium, the Field Museum, the Planetarium, the Museum of Science, and also the observatory deck of either John Hancock Tower or Sears Tower. Quite a good value for money, and it includes VIP passes to jump ahead the long,long queues for all venues.

The aquarium was quite interesting, loads of fishies swimming around, and crabs, and all kinds of seafood :p we got into the Wild Reef section at the level below, and i saw this bad boys swimming around scaring people.

auuummmm

they got sharks here!but they're all small sharks,not the big type "Jaws" kinda-shark. and i saw torto's cousin here too :p

holla, i need vege.

lucky i didn't bring torto there,if not he would be ecstatic to see his cousin.hehe.after that we went to watch a 4-D movie called Planet Earth, which tells us the story of animals in the world like penguins(yaay!), polar bear,seals to snakes and elephants.you know why it's called 4-D?because the seats are equipped with hoses for water and air,and the chair also vibrates,so you'll get the feeling of actually being in the movie,for example,if the movie got someone sneezes out of the screen,you're face will get sprayed and got wind coming out of the hoses as well.hehe.we got the scare of our lives when in the movie got snakes coming out of the screen and we feel something was slithering under our chair.i don't want her to watch it, because it'll traumatized her so much.

moving on,we went to this practice session where the dolphins and beluga whales practicing for their show.it was fun,and the dolphins we're really smart,wonder how come they can jump in and out of the water so easily.and they're so friendly too.

the beluga whales,which reminds me of snowy :P

saw a couple of fascinating animals as well, gonna post the pics up on facebook instead of here because there're a loaaad of fishy and some other animals picture to be uploaded :)

starfish...can eat or not? :p

i found nemo!!

i cannot turn this photo around..weird.but see the name of the fish?hahaha!

aaaannddd the main attraction of the day,

PENGUINS!!!

the penguins with yellow eyebrows, her favourite type of penguin :)

the penguins here aren't as many as the ones in Edinburgh Zoo, and they're all trapped in glass cage..poor penguins.but they look sooo cuteeeeee,feel like want to bring them back home and give one to her as souvenir.hehe.

it's getting quite late and not wanting to waste anymore time, we head to the Sears Tower to go up to the observatory deck, which is the 103rd floor.and again we got to cut a super freaking long queue,a security guard there told us we're lucky that we bought the tickets,because there're a lot of people in the queue has been queueing for 2 hours but still stuck, and it took us only 5 minutes to jump the queue and take the 1 minute lift ride to the deck.phew!

once we step outside the lift, we're greeted with beautiful surroundings of Chicago from bird's eye view...it was simply amazing.and the fact the sun is slowly setting in makes it more memorable to us.it would be perfect if she's there with me in my arms while enjoying the sunset from basically the top of the world.one day..maybe one day,we will.

stunning view of Chicago and Lake Michigan.

They even had this see-through platform where you can walk on it, and to tell you the truth it was pretty scary,my palms are practically sweating, but after a while i got used to it and even jumps on the glass panel :P

the munkeey chillaxing on the glass panel

it was a fun sunday altogether,and as the City Pass can be used for 2 weekends, this weekend we're planning to cover the Museums and also the Planetarium.can't wait for another weekend out :)

and tomorrow friday!!don't think will be too busy tomorrow,but she won't be able to go online for long to teman me at work since she have to stay back for work,guess i'm gonna be bored tomorrow. oh well, i'm gonna give her a call soon, just wanted to kacau her before i go to bed (even though i know she will be busy with work and will say "can i talk to you later?") heheh. :p

kisses from across the Pacific.

x