Before leaving home to go to the museum we had to run to the library because Brian was one of the Grand Prize winners of their Summer Reading Program. Every kid who participated got a few small prizes and then they picked one name from each age group to win a Grand Prize. Brian won for his age group - he got this basket of goodies and also a 1-year family membership to the Brookfield Zoo. We are looking forward to visiting this zoo soon.
They have the Harry Potter Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry. It's a traveling exhibition and before the end of next month it will move on. Heather was sorted into Ravenclaw.
On Jan 11, 1942 the German navy unleashed one of its most feared weapons on the Allied Forces: an unseen predator, hunting from beneath the waves - the "Unterseeboot," or U-boat. That year, U-boats sank an incredible 1,150 Allied ships, sending thousands of men to their deaths and a staggering 7.8 million tons of vital war supplies to the bottom of the Atlantic.
Navy Captain Daniel Gallery, a Chicago native, was determined to not only find a German U-boat as it was prowling the seas, but to capture it for its wealth of intelligence information. He and his Task Group succeeded. That U-boat was the U-505.
More than a trophy of war, the U-505 was a key to unlocking German technology and codes, and its seizure curbed the annihilation of Allied ships. Its capture was kept cloaked in secrecy until the end of the war.
They have this actual U-boat, U-505, right here in this museum. We got to see it and walk through it. It was amazing.
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That is so great that Brian won!!! That is an impressive ship and history.
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