Saturday, we went to the MSI to see the Christmas trees! We also got to see a gingerbread house of the white house. It was made recently enough that standing around the edge that you could still smell the sugar and ginger from the house. It smelled sooo good!! The shrubs were made of rice krispies and trees were made of popcorn balls! It was very neat to see the white house on such a small scale. They also had the white house decorated for Christmas. The MSI has christmas trees decorated by different community groups that are found in Chicago. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be as many trees this year as previous years. We're not sure why, but both of us felt there were fewer trees. While there we also got to see some Royal Scottish Dancers. The guys in kilts were pretty entertaining. I joked with Chris about joining them, but he doesn't think he'd look that good in a kilt -- apparently his legs are too hairy. We didn't really go through much of the rest of the museum while we were there.
On Sunday I worked Holiday Magic at the zoo. They've decorated the zoo with lights every where! A few of the animals were out an about -- like Whirl (a tiger), Hudson (polar bear), Aussie (polar bear), and Jim (alaskan brown bear). But since its cold you'd expect those animals to be out an about. It was about thirty degrees or so and it was nice to see the polar bears not being green! At the zoo there is also the sleigh set up with polar bears pulling it. It was great. I liked all the cute things around the zoo -- the wreaths around the statues to go with the endless lights. Some of the lights were impressive and the reflection pools were really cool. Now though, the pools (what are fountains in the summer) will really start to freeze over, so that means the reflections will be different.
We also got some snow today. It was nice. It was our first snow and we only got about an inch. It was nice to finally get some though. It was naturally enough to cause massive problems. They didn't get plow because there wasn't enough snow. It was also gone by mid-day, but it was here. We're actually supposed to get quite a bit of snow tomorrow. Hopefully it will snow so much that all finals will be canceled. This is finals week so that means I've got exams on Wednesday and Friday. I've also managed to get through this semester. I now have one semester left before I get my Masters. I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. If you know of anyone in the Chicago area in need of a MS Chemist let me know. I'm looking at doing some teaching at several community colleges around us or looking at some of the food companies around here. There are several of them and it could be interesting. Chris is still looking at taking the stockroom over at some point in the next year.
Saturday, we went to the MSI to see the Christmas trees! We also got to see a gingerbread house of the white house. It was made recently enough that standing around the edge that you could still smell the sugar and ginger from the house. It smelled sooo good!! The shrubs were made of rice krispies and trees were made of popcorn balls! It was very neat to see the white house on such a small scale. They also had the white house decorated for Christmas. The MSI has christmas trees decorated by different community groups that are found in Chicago. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be as many trees this year as previous years. We're not sure why, but both of us felt there were fewer trees. While there we also got to see some Royal Scottish Dancers. The guys in kilts were pretty entertaining. I joked with Chris about joining them, but he doesn't think he'd look that good in a kilt -- apparently his legs are too hairy. We didn't really go through much of the rest of the museum while we were there. 
On Sunday I worked Holiday Magic at the zoo. They've decorated the zoo with lights every where! A few of the animals were out an about -- like Whirl (a tiger), Hudson (polar bear), Aussie (polar bear), and Jim (alaskan brown bear). But since its cold you'd expect those animals to be out an about. It was about thirty degrees or so and it was nice to see the polar bears not being green! At the zoo there is also the sleigh set up with polar bears pulling it. It was great. I liked all the cute things around the zoo -- the wreaths around the statues to go with the endless lights. Some of the lights were impressive and the reflection pools were really cool. Now though, the pools (what are fountains in the summer) will really start to freeze over, so that means the reflections will be different. 
We also got some snow today. It was nice. It was our first snow and we only got about an inch. It was nice to finally get some though. It was naturally enough to cause massive problems. They didn't get plow because there wasn't enough snow. It was also gone by mid-day, but it was here. We're actually supposed to get quite a bit of snow tomorrow. Hopefully it will snow so much that all finals will be canceled. This is finals week so that means I've got exams on Wednesday and Friday. I've also managed to get through this semester. I now have one semester left before I get my Masters. I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. If you know of anyone in the Chicago area in need of a MS Chemist let me know. I'm looking at doing some teaching at several community colleges around us or looking at some of the food companies around here. There are several of them and it could be interesting. Chris is still looking at taking the stockroom over at some point in the next year.
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