Chicago Trip: Day 1

Last year we went to Chicago to celebrate Marc's birthday. It was a disaster! We had 2 flat tires (in the same day) and little Marc got sick. Daddy decided he wanted to try it again, to redeem the "birthday in Chicago weekend". We spent the first day just kind of "wondering" around Navy Pier. We went to a Broadway-type show of Aladdin.It was really well done. They changed it up a little to incude some jokes about the present time. For example, when Aladdin releases the Genie and is aked what his 3 wishes are, the Genie suggests a "Snugglie" or instead of him sgguesting a million dollars like in the movie, the Genie suggested 2 million "with the economy the way it is". It was really good. Marc enjoyed it a lot.
After the show a couple of the performers came out to autograph the programs. This is Marc getting Jafar's autograph.
After some more exploring and eating we headed to the Museum of Science & Industry. There is a traveling Harry Potter exhibit that is there right now. It was awesome!! They had things used in all of the movies. It was really cool to see they props that were actually used. Marc said, in regards to Harry's bed, "You mean they took the bed out of the movie to bring here to be in this museum?!" So, we then had to explain more about what movies are. We thought he understood that they were just acting and "playing pretend". We got to go into Hagrid's hut and sit in the chair that he sat in in the movies. :) We were not allowed to take picture inside the exhibit. The only thing we were able to take pictures of was the "flying" car used int he movie. (That was outside of the exhibit enterance)Going to this exhibit and seeing all of the props, got us really excited to see the new movie. We will be going to see it Saturday night. :)