Whilst Dan was at work, I went downtown again, this time to visit the Field Museum. Luckily this was not actually a museum of fields which would have been very dull, but a science and natural history museum, housing the skeleton of the largest T Rex yet discovered, which someone decided to call Sue, not really an appropriate name for the most fearsome predator to ever walk the earth. The museum is huge - I've not been to the Natural History Museum in London for years, but I would guess it's as big, if not bigger, and would take a full day to fully explore. I only had the chance to take in the Darwin exhibit (where I had to restrain myself from accosting passers by and telling them I was in the Galapagos myself recently),
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