Chicago trip

It was a Friday and I took the day off of work. My sister and her boyfriend and their kids were in town for the weekend. We sat around all morning thinking of something we could go and do. Around 11:00 we decided to go to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Owen and Elliot were at VBS at my moms church. They were suppose to be home around noon. At 11:30 I decided to call Amanda and see if she wanted to go with us. Earlier in the week I had found out that the Shedd had free admission this week. Friday was the last day to get in free. We all got ready to go. Coolers were packed with food and bottled water. We were ready to leave..................but we had no Owen and Elliot. My mom was suppose to pick them up and bring them home. Well she made a detour and took the boys to Dairy Queen. About they got home and we left it was about 1:00. We all loaded up and off we went. On the way we were trying to use Jeffs computer program for navigation. Couldn't figure it out. So we just drove and figured since it was along the lake we should be fine. Amazingly we found our way to the Shedd. We get there and start to try someplace to park and noticed a sign that said "2 HOUR WAIT TO ENTER THE SHEDD"! You have to be kidding me! I could not believe it. Did I tell you it was 90+ degrees out and felt like 100% humidity and we had 4 teens, 4 grade schoolers and 4 little ones under the age of 2 1/2. There was no way we were waiting that long to get in. So we decided to go on down to Lincoln Park Zoo. It is free and something to do since we drove all that way. Well we were not really sure where it was so we figures we would drive on up the lake and figure it out as we go. Ok we had to turn around a few times but we finally found it. We parked and got everyone unloaded, got the food out, and ate. Well we were all suppose to eat, but the kids found better things to do.
Elliot found a big mud puddle to run through, Owen, Leland and Kelsey wanted to feed the seagulls, Chandler and Caleb found geese to torment. Oh how I wished those geese would turn around and chase them. We finished up our picnic lunch and headed on into the zoo.