Showing posts with label Field Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Field Museum. Show all posts

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Cute shoes!




From the Field Museum collection-
Everyone who knows me knows I have a shoe fetish, so it's no shocker that I spent the better part of an hour admiring the hu-mongo wall of shoes exhibit (Field Museum, Chicago). I apparently have a thing for fish too because I found myself especially drawn to and amused by the children's fish slippers (pic 3). The little Chinese boy who stood beside me at the museum informed me that the green stuff at the toe of the shoe was seaweed the fish was eating. Of course! What else would it be!? Precious.

Meet Sue


This is Sue. She is the most complete T Rex ever unearthed, from South Dakota, of all places. She lives in the Field Museum in Chicago along with the man-hunting lions from Tsavo Africa (The Ghost and the Darkness movie) and a bunch of other cool stuff. Half a day really wasn't long enough to see everything, so plan the better part of a day when you go. Everything from the Tibetian exhibit, to the collection of wild animals, to the Egyptian exhibit, to the shoes from around the world was spectacular! Loved me some Chinese embroidered slippers! And, did I mention, the BEST museum gift shop I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. Tack on an extra 45 minutes just for shopping and bring the plastic!