Chicago - part 2

Today's adventure was bought to you by the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. We slept in, got mixed up where to go, caught the wrong train but ended up in the place where we needed to be to get to the MSI. To get there you had to go on their Metra train network. The stations had lots of disconcerting voices coming out of speakers about where the steps were (stright out of Orwell I swear) and the train itself was this sweet double decker thing where the bottom rows were normal two seaters on either side, but the top deck was split into single seaters on either side and when you were on the bottom row your head went between the top decks. Weird, but look them up, I'm sure there are photos.
At the MSI, we saw a 'Smart Home' where they had a lot of common sense environmentally friendly things about it. Unfortunately the tour guide was amazingly painful and one woman asked a lot of dumb questions (Does a chimney have ash?) so we bailed as quick as we could, but it meant we had to kinda run through everything else as he took up a lot of our time. They had an actual U boat there which we had a look at, as well as the biggest HO scale model train layout I've ever seen in my life. It depicted the line from Chicago to Seattle and was extremely accurate. It was awesome :) Other great sights were buildings made from Lego and a robot assembly line.
After almost being locked in because we stayed too long (the lights were turned off on us) we grabbed some food and went to the Baseball! We went to US Cellular Field to see the Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics. It was a really close game and after the White Sox gained an early lead, the A's came back for a tie at the end of the standard 9th inning. The Sox ended up winning after 13 innings were played and we cheered very loudly. It was so good to go and see a US sporting event and it only whetted our appetite for the NFL and NHL we are seeing next week.