Planet Vargas: You Want Me To Wait HOW Long???

So me and Karina, mom, Donneta and the kids came back from Indiana to my house on Thursday morning with plans to go to Shedd Aquarium, downtown Chicago, for the day because it was FREE! So as soon as we got home, we quickly packed lunches and headed for the train station to go downtown. We get off the train and walk over to the Aquarium and HOLY COW! Everybody and their mother (and father and sister and etc, etc etc) was there! I'm not lying when I say that the regular line was at least a mile long. It snaked around and around and around and we never really saw where the end was. There were two lines to get in, the regular line and the stroller line. So obviously we get in the stroller line, debating whether we really wanted to even stay when a staff member comes up and says, "ok folks, you're looking at a 2-2 1/2 hour wait and it is very full inside..." at this point I'm not even listening to her anymore and I'm envisioning 4 kids having a serious meltdown after only 20 minutes! So we unanimously decided that NO we would not stand in line because that would be a (come on, say it with me...) DISASTER! Oh yeah, and when the lady was saying all this, she also said that they had actually stopped letting people in at that time because it was so full! That sealed the deal. So instead we decided to go down by the lake and eat our lunch on the grass and then we headed down to Buckingham Fountain, Millenium Park, a coffee stop and then back on the train home. It ended up being a really fun afternoon even though we didn't get to see the fishies and the kids didn't even complain about it! Fun was had by all!

On The Train