Weekend Update a Day Late : )

I know I'm a day late but hopefully not a dollar short.  : )

Last night we were being so productive at our house that I completely forgot to post.  I pulled about a dozen clothing items and a dozen pieces of jewelry pulled out of my closet and ready to leave our condo!  Also packed up another box to go into storage yesssss!  Those were the biggies we accomplished a lot of smaller things too. 

Now for the fun stuff ... talking about my birthday weekend!!!!

The weekend really started off Thursday night when the hubby gave me my birthday gifts.  He started off by giving me a new pair of ear plugs for shows.  That was sooo great (lots of sarcasm there) I told him the other one better be good!  OH it so was : )  My amazing hubby got me the Coach purse I've been drooling over for probably the past 8 weeks!!

Source: macys.com via Betsy on Pinterest

It's this purse but in black.  Love it!!! Used it all weekend.

Friday night my parents, Lou, Bethany and I went to member's night at the Field Museum!  Like always it was a blast.  The best part was showing Lou & Bethany everything since they had not been before.  This was actually the first time Bethany had ever even been in the Field Museum?!!?  I know right, we will be going back and I will be showing her everything!

***WARNING some photos are a tad graphic****

A look at some of what's going on in exhibits

Stanley Field Hall during Member's night

My lunch friend John from exhibits showing kids something

Working on preparing a bird for the collections

 Beetles eating an iguana.  These beetles are the coolest thing, they will eat everything except bone so they are the cleanest way of getting a skeleton.  There are large beetles that do the same thing in a special room but it wasn't open that night : (  

 
Preparing a skeleton

Dinosaur roaming around Stanley Field Hall

 April birthday babies with Sue

Bethany and Mom outside the Field Museum

View of the Field Museum from the car.  This was the least blurry of the photos I shot. 

There was so much more than what you saw from my photos it really is the coolest thing.  Check out the Field Museum's Flickr Page (you can see the photo of my family with a really old Gar.  Also check out the Field Museum Library's Flickr shows you more of the images I worked with!!

Saturday was great as well.  I ended up back in the city to have dinner with Stephanie and Tara.  We went out to dinner at Shine Restaurant in Lincoln Park and I was able to check off one of my 101!!!  I ate sushi. 

I stole this photo from Stephanie.  Me having my first piece!  I had a Honey Roll which is white tuna, cucumber, and sesame honey sauce rolled in tempura crunch.  It was yummy!  I shouldn't have done the noodles and the sushi that was waaaaaay too much haha.  Tara and I split crab rangoons too, next time we need to split more ha.  

We then headed to Lincoln Station and chilled out.  We played what I think Stephanie referred to as bar crack, one of those end of bar gaming stations.  We played photo matching games for hours I think.  It's their goal to put a friend of their's name as the high scores in every single machine in the city.  I guess there is an excel spread sheet and everything ... they're hardcore.  Since Tara is heading back to Iowa this summer I was being tested for possible replacement status ... I think I passed : )

Sunday was a travel home and hang out day.  I went over to Kevin's parents for a little bit to see his brother and his wife who were in town to celebrate their anniversary.  Kevin ended up getting home later that evening.  Unfortunately for Kevin I had brought back a little too much Hawkeye with me and Kevin had a bit of a reaction after our cuddle session. Oops!  He's ok and he still thinks Hawkeye is adorable.  

So all in all it was a great but really tiring birthday weekend.  Thanks for all the birthday wishes!  Don't forget to enter my giveaway from Friday either!!!