Days Seven & Eight

 December 2000

Field Museum, Improv Comedy

Wednesday & Thursday

Jesse and Sue at the Field MuseumDave had to work again Wednesday, so Lyn and Jesse took to red line and bus down to the famous Field museum. The newest exhibit was the famous Dinosaur name "Sue", but Lyn tells us that Jesse enjoyed almost every corner of every exhibit. If you ask him, he'll tell you: "ah, sure" (what a wonderful age).

For dinner it was Ed Debevic's diner just two blocks from the Embassy suites. They serve great meatloaf, and pie, and the famous green lime soda, all with that cute-camp "Rude" treatment that is so in vogue with many.

Thursday was Dave's last day to work, so Lyn and Jesse hung out at the pool and cruised the web as part of home schooling. After another simple dinner at Portillo's we caught the red line back to ComedySportz for the novelty trial-run of "Who's chorus line is it anyway". Unlike traditional ComedySportz (with short events presented as a contest between two teams), this was a long-program improve presented as a musical (hence the merging of Drew Carey's and Marvin Hamlish's famous shows). It was interesting and novel, and fun (it seemed) for the performers to suddenly belt out a song in the various scenes, but like all  long-format improv, the dry periods are unbearable. I guess everybody is a critic.

With Dave done at work, we expected the next couple days to be hectic and tiring. And the weatherman was predicting continued cold and intermittant rain.

The trains arrive sooner if you lean and look

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