Our last day in Chicago was one long down­pour, so we decided to make the best of it and visit the Art Insti­tute. Lit­tle did I know what amaz­ing pieces were wait­ing inside but, first things first … we needed tickets!

We shuf­fled over to the ticket counter and were greeted by a pleas­ant lady. By the end of this trans­ac­tion I was rolling with laugh­ter. :)) Seems Can­dice mis­un­der­stood the ques­tion she was asked.

So what did the lady at the ticket counter ask?

1. What’s your best pose?
2. What’s that on your nose?
3. What color are your toes?
4. What’s your zip code?

Can­dice paused, clearly baf­fled, half­heart­edly struck a pose, then asked for clar­i­fi­ca­tion on the ques­tion. The lady couldn’t pos­si­bly be ask­ing what she heard, right?! LOL. The moment was price­less. We all had a good laugh and that lovely museum employee will prob­a­bly be telling that story every time some­one mis­un­der­stands her question. :))

The museum came with an unex­pected sur­prise for me. When I looked through the hall­way open­ing and saw Sun­day After­noon on the Island of the Grand-Jatte (1884 – 1886) by Georges Seu­rat, it took my breath away. It was huge and all inspir­ing. Oh … and Monet? He was next door. :) I won’t go on about it. Suf­fice to say, it was a fan­tas­tic day. Here are some ran­dom snap­shots from our Chicago week­end (mostly iPhone shots in the mix). You can find more snaps in the iPhone Diaries.

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