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Tristan enjoying McDonald's

Cohen with Keegan behind him

Keegan, the cool dude with a fuzzy chin

We found a vending machine that prints your name in hieroglyphics

Each of the kids wanted their name printed in hieroglyphics. Kinda cool, actually

This is the famous ape, Bushman

The littler ones were fascinated by this sarcophagus

A gold-faced mummy

Another mummy with big ears

Some sort of inscribed tablet that was part of burial remains

Maybe this mummy mask was for a young man or woman?

Figures that were placed in burial chambers

The kids were really interested in all of the Egyptian artifacts

Keegan and Tristan were looking closely at something

An exhibit that showed what the Nile was like

A mummified hawk

A mummified cat

A figurine in the shape of a baboon

Brinley and Tristan playing around

These utensils were what Egyptian men used to shave

Another photo of the shaving tools

A carved relief of some sort

Closer up photo of a carved relief

Still closer photo of a carved relief

A scroll containing writings of a scribe

I think these were examples of mirrors

Egyptian necklaces especially caught the attention of Michele and Brinley

Beautiful pottery

The man-eating lion of Mfuwe, apparently the largest such lion ever captured or shot. It killed six people before being killed itself, carefully preserved, and then donated to the museum in 1999

Part of the main exhibit hall facing to the south toward the gift shop

A view of the main exhibit hall showing the 2nd floor gallery

One of the statues above the entrance

The beautiful ceiling of the main exhibit hall

Arched doorway above the main entrance

A beautiful old bell, used in a temple

Entrance to an exhibit about the Pacific islands

A mockup of a lavaflow in Hawaii

A Hawaiian village

Cohen and Brinley thought the lava felt funny

Michele and Brinley looking at an exhibit showing how the Hawaiian islands were formed. Michele is pointing out Kauaii, where we stayed on our honeymoon

Would that this beautiful scene were real!

I decided on a whim to take a self portrait and made a grimace while doing so

Michele took this one of me

Keegan trying to look interested

A typical style of boat in the Pacific

This photo shows the outrigger commonly used by Pacific islanders

Cohen and Tristan playing with an exhibit that demonstrates the usefulness of an outrigger in keeping boats stable at sea

A real lab where real people were working on pieces in the Field Museum's permanent collections

Some small carved figures

Cohen and Brinley looking in some of the exhibit drawers

This photo shows what a meeting structure might look like on a typical Pacific island

Tristan by the fence

All three had to get in the act

Cohen, Brinley and Tristan

This is a spider that spun silk thread. The big one is the female, the teeny one is the male

Another photo of the spiders. I sure wouldn't want the female spider to be found crawling on me!

Brinley took this photo

Cohen took this photo

There were lots of different masks

Some more carved figures

Another carved slit drum

I like the symmetry of this particular mask (or is it a shield? I forget)

Closeup of the shield

Another photo of this shield

A cute pose for Brinley

Brinley thinks she is so funny

I thought at first that these were some sort of crab claws or something. But Michele corrected me, saying they are beaks of hornbills! (Next time, just read the inscription, Steve!)

Interesting carved figure

Keegan looking closely at part of the exhibit telling the story of the help Pacific islanders gave to the Allies in World War II

Some interesting headdresses

Where did they get the idea for this mask from?

Perhaps the most elaborate and a little bit scary looking mask

I imagine some little guy running around wearing this

Michele liked this mask best

The famous T. Rex, named Sue

Closeup of Sue's head

Some stuffed elephants in the main exhibit hall

Totem poles in the main exhibit hall

Another view of Sue, the famous T. Rex

Looking down the exhibit hall

Another view of the exhibit hall looking toward the main entrance to the south

More pteradactyl

Closeup of the pteradactyl's head

Another shot of the pteradactyl

Beautiful butterflies

Another view of the butterflies. I was trying a different angle to avoid the flash reflecting on the glass

Some sort of prehistoric monster. Looks to me like a very big precursor to the modern day snapping turtle

More prehistoric creatures

This one looks a bit like an early croc

Another view; again, I was trying to avoid having the flash reflected in the photo but didn't succeed

A colorful scene of dinosaurs fighting

I forget what kind of dinosaurs these were, but I think they were the vicious kind made famous in the Jurassic Park movies

A stegosaurus I think

The foot of a very large dinosaur

Head of a stegosaurus

A nice view of the downtown skyline of Chicago

A view of Adler Planetarium. We have never been there

The kids were trying to all fit inside the footprint of a dinosaur

Another photo of the kids inside the dinosaur's footprint

A view of Shedd Aquarium from within the Field Museum

A bigger view of the Shedd

I can't remember the name of this one

I should know this one but can't remember its name

Another view of the T. Rex

A sauropod head, reconstructed

A fossilized fish

A mammoth skeleton plus that of some sort of large, ancient reindeer

A beautiful light display even if it is there to glorify Darwinism

The portico of the Field Museum Store

This external shot of the Field Museum was taken by Tristan

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