Too Much?

Trying to fill the first day with no preschool to fill our afternoon hours, without the safety net of calm professionals whisking away my oldest for educational activities:

-Babysitting at the park district while Mom showers
-Starbucks drive through
-Swing by Kim Moldofsky's to pick up a picnic table
-Drive to Millennium Park, park
-Buy hotdogs for the girls, chips for me, lemonade and water
-Watch Shanghai Circus gymnasts
-Run around the Bean
-Run around and get wet in the Giant Face Video water art installation
-Eat ice cream (Momma gets a mushroom sandwich), change into dry jeans and jackets
-Walk to State Street
-Buy dry shorts at TJ Maxx
-Walk to the Art Institute
-Read new TJ Maxx book in the lovely shady park adjacent to the museum, eat more chips
-Spend an hour in the Art Institute kids' library
-Cross the street for s'mores at Cosi
-Trudge up the hill towards the the parking garage, but...
-Walk through the Lurie garden, smelling the sweet air, splash in the manmade stream
-Miraculously find the car in the cavernous parking garage
-Drop the girls off at Daddy's work
-Mommy recovers by reading an entire US Magazine, then House Beautiful over a spinach salad at Fox and Obel, justified by a needed purchase of Murphy's Oil Soap
-Home at 8:20 pm
The girls doing some gymnastics of their own with the Chinese contortionists in the background.