The Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago are incredible. You can find detail in each one over and over.

Thorne Miniature Room depicting a French-style bedroom with a canopy bed, grandfather clock, fireplace, and terracotta tile floorThorne Miniature Room depicting an English Tudor bedchamber with carved oak paneling, ornate fireplace, four-poster bed with green curtains, and floral rug.Thorne Miniature Room showing an elegant Georgian drawing room with chandelier, bookcase, fireplace, and period furniture on a floral rugMiniature colonial dining room with dark oval table, Chippendale chairs, corner cabinet, scenic wallpaper, and draped windows

Chicago Cloud Gate sculpture.

Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park reflecting Chicago skyline and clouds, visitors walking around it on stone plaza

Inside the Chicago Cloud Gate.

View from beneath Cloud Gate in Chicago showing its curved mirrored steel surface reflecting distorted images of visitors walking below

Chicago Cloud Gate.

Cloud Gate bean sculpture in Millennium Park Chicago reflecting the city skyline with tourists gathered around it on a cloudy day

Chicago.

Marina City twin corncob towers rising above the Chicago River on a cloudy day

Time for Hamilton! 🎭🎶

Family of four posing outside CIBC Theatre under the Hamilton musical marquee in Chicago

$1 million three different ways ($1, $20, and $100 bills) at Chicago Fed Money Museum.

Tilted metal-framed cube packed with bundled US dollar bills on display at the Chicago Fed Money MuseumOne million dollars in banded stacks of $20 bills arranged in a circular display under a glass dome at the Chicago Fed Money Museum.Uncut sheet of $100 bills displayed under glass in an open aluminum briefcase at the Chicago Fed Money Museum

Delicious espresso at Caffe Umbria this morning.

Yellow Strada espresso machine branded Caffe Umbria with colorful ceramic cups stacked on top, to-go cups and coffee bags on counter nearby.

Array of 3D printers at Museum of Science & Industry.

Numbered red and black 3D printers stacked on metal shelving racks in a darkened room at the Museum of Science and Industry

I love watching the Tesla coil at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Tesla coil at the Museum of Science and Industry firing bright lightning bolts, viewed from below through large circular resonator rings.Tesla coil firing bright lightning bolts from a central toroid, surrounded by two large metal rings, viewed from below in a dark room.Tesla coil at Chicago Museum of Science and Industry shooting electric arcs outward, viewed from below in black and whiteTesla coil firing bright lightning bolts outward from a central toroid, surrounded by two large circular conductor rings, viewed from below.

Tammy has our summer vacations planned out for the next 5 years. Now that is planning!