Off to see the Dodgers

An obvious highlight of the weekend was to go to Wrigley Field and see the mighty Dodgers take on the Cubbies. But before the game, we headed to the Chicago Historical Society museum to catch up on the history of this town. Overall we give the place the thumbs up especially for kids. It gave a good high level overview of the city's history and I was able to play train engineer for a few minutes and was caught in the act by Marian. I wish there was a little bit more on the prohibition era but it seems to be something that the city would rather forget...Before I forget, if possible go on Mondays, admission is free.



We then headed up through Lincoln Park and walked through the zoo
(also free admission). It was fine but I constantly find myself wondering why the polar bears have to stay outside in 85+ degree weather while the penguins always get the cushy inside locale. Kind of bothers me.

We then started to walk up Clark towards Wrigley. Got hot dogs at Clark Street Dogs, nothing to write home about. Chicago dogs are nothing more than any other hot dog with onions, a pickle spear, tomatoes, hot peppers, mustard, relish and some celery salt.

We finally made it to Wrigley, here is the classic backdrop from the stadium.



The game itself was fantastic, is there anything better than to be surrounded by opposing fans when their team is getting crushed? Final score was 11-3 Dodgers over the Cubs. Here is a photo from our seats, pretty good for getting them on Ebay. Lots of jeering over our Dodgers hats but we stuck it to the Cubs fans.