Under the sea

From planes to ships (and even a combine) - the past few weeks have been all about transportation for me!

My folks were in town to visit last weekend, and we made our first trip down to the Museum of Science and Industry. It was pretty cool!

We took the Coal Mine tour (explaining traditional and modern coal mining, particularly in Illinois), explored the Farming exhibits, and visited the massive model train exhibit (based on a "trip" from Chicago to Seattle).

Primarily, though, we toured the German U-505 submarine housed at the Museum. It was the only submarine captured in WWII, and recently the Museum constructed a massive underground hall to house it properly. The surrounding exhibits were informative and fairly cool in their own right.



The train exhibit.



U-505.



U-505 with torpedo.



My folks "driving" the absolutely immense harvester/combine.