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Choir Tour Part I!
March 6th, 2010
I just returned from a week-long trip with my church choir. Every year we put on a performance and during February Break we take it to a different part of the U.S. or occasionally, out of the country. This year we did Fiddler on the Roof and traveled on a bus to Carlisle, PA, Gibsonia, PA, Chicago, IL, Anderson, IN and finally Pittsburgh, PA. About fifty-five of us, students and the adult advisors, traveled from town to town performing in a total of five churches. Luckily between all that work and driving we had some time for a little sightseeing! Our main destination was Chicago. We stayed two nights right in the city and visited the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), the Museum of Science and Industry, volunteered with Chicago City Year and went to a show at Second City, a comedy club where many comedians from SNL got their start.
The Museum of Science and Industry was amazing. I wasn’t expecting much but it turned out to be similar to the Newseum in Washington DC that I wrote about a few blogs ago. It is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere with more than 35,000 artifacts and over 14 acres of exhibits. We also had tickets to the Omnimax Theater to see “Mysteries of the Great Lakes” which was really interesting and quite an experience. My favorite part had to be Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle. Colleen Moore was an actress who created the dollhouse of her dreams by the suggestion of her father. It is a beautiful piece of art. Everything inside symbolizes something and some miniature statues are close to 2,000 years old. It also contains the tiniest bible ever written. It cost about $500,000.00 to create! Some other exhibits we visited were the U-505 submarine and a coal mine. There was so much to see, I’ll definitely go back if I ever find myself in Chicago again! Visit www.msichicago.org if you’re going to be in the area!
Next time: Willis Tower and Second City
