I hurt all over. We got to see the King Tut exhibit at the Field Museum today. The day was insane. We got started late, had a hell of a time finding parking at the CTA station, finally got on a train and it finally left the station at 11 am. Our tickets for Tut were for an 11 am admission. They were supposed to be good for any time between 11 and 11:30 am admission. We didn't get to the museum till noon. Apparently there was a Bears game today right next to the museum. We got lucky and the guy with the tickets said it was no big deal and we got to go in late. Thank god. Those tickets aren't cheap. Then we get in the line to go in and find out there's no photography at all allowed in the Tut exhibit. GRRRRR It said NOTHING about that online and in fact said that photography is allowed in the museum but that the use of flashes was restricted in some places. So, I had drug along the camera and laptop for no particular reason. I did take some pics in their regular Egypt exhibit. Not the same tho. So I bought a book of postcards and some loose postcards. I'll scan these and put up a link to where I've posted them once I do all that. There were so many people in the Tut exhibit that I was beginning to get very irritable because people were slow and it was cramped at times. I got thru it without killing anybody tho. By the time we had done Tut and a good walk around the museum, I was beat. We decided to head back to the hotel and couldn't find a cab. So we took off walking. We followed signs that said they were pointing in the direction of the CTA station we needed. Well, they ended up leading us in a huge circle and we ended up only a block from where we started. GRRRRR Then we managed to drag ourselves the three blocks down to the CTA station and make the train. By this time I was in a lot of pain. I have degenerative arthritis in my back and have issues with phantom pain due to pressure on my spinal cord from a disk that popped a few years ago. So needless to say it was a HUGE relief to sit down on the train. The ride allowed me to recoup and manage to be able to make the walk to where we parked. By this time it was 6:45 pm. We got in the car, plugged up the laptop and plugged in the GPS unit and navigated from the station back to the area of the hotel with a brief stop at Big Lots and another stop at the Dennys right down from the hotel so we could have dinner. Being able to see an exhibit of this magnitude had been a dream of mine for years. It wouldn't have been possible if my dad hadn't bankrolled us. Me, Nina, her half sister Blair and my buddy NTL's daughter Brianna went. Blair's mom sent some money and Brianna brought some cash but it was my dad who paid for the majority of the trip. It is a trip I'll never forget.