Sue Turns Five

You'll note by the time on this post that it is a ridiculous hour of the morning to be out of bed, but I am. Even more ridiculous is that my 6- and 8-year-olds are up also.

That's because they are going to the Field Museum to celebrate Sue the T-Rex's fifth birthday party and their school gets to be the background for the TV coverage on the various network stations in Chicago. They have to leave their school at 4 AM to do this.

Wolfgang Puck (making the cake) and Al Jarreau (singing Happy Birthday) are going to be there too. That's quite the A-list crowd for the birthday of a bag of bones.

If you live around Chicago, every station (2,5,7,9,32) is covering it at some level on their morning shows and/or local news programs. If you don't live around here, but get WGN on your cable, you might see coverage there.

We (parents) were given no specific information as to which channels were showing this when, so we get to spend the morning channel surfing.