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[Nov. 22nd, 2008|09:52 pm] |
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I was rewatching 4.10 before I left to pick up the kids and I really like ( spoilers )
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I am so tired and sleepy and warm, sitting all curled up on my couch. Today was very fun and busy, but I am just not made for cold weather.
I picked up the kids at Penn, and we schlepped up to 86th street, and had brunch at the Popover Cafe, which was really nice. We had to wait for a table, but it wasn't a tremendously long wait. I had the lemon pancakes, Alyssa had the chicken salad sandwich, and Anthony had the French toast. Oh, and the iced chai was really good.
Then we walked down to the museum, and because BEMC is a corporate member, we got in free and only had to pay for the special exhibits we wanted to see - we chose Climate Change and The Horse, and the guy sent us into the IMAX theatre for Climate Change, except that that was a movie about Sea Monsters. Which was fine and all - very "Finding Nemo" at parts, except with ancient dinosaur-like giant fish things (every time the big giant prehistoric turtle showed up, I was like, "Duuude." and the shark reminded me of Bruce: "Fish are our friends!" - but was not what we wanted to see. Then we wandered upstairs to the horse exhibit, which was far too crowded, but very interesting.
Then we wandered some more, and finally hit the meteorite, minerals and and gems exhibit, which none of us had seen before. Well, obviously, Anthony had never been to the museum before, so he'd never seen it, but neither had Alyssa and I, and we've been there a few times.
Well, we spent quite a lot of time in there, and both kids really seemed to enjoy it (Anthony's affinity for sulfur was amusing on several levels). We saw the Star of India, and a smaller star ruby, and a lot of other gorgeous gems, and some really cool looking rocks - pyrite and hematite and quartz and a ton of other stuff none of us had ever heard of, but was really pretty to look at. Anthony was actually considering a future in geology for a bit (he is fifteen and unsure about what he wants to do with his life, though architectural engineering is his current fancy; my dad was a draftsman, so he is kind of chuffed by that idea).
Then they started announcing the museum was going to close, so we went back out into the cold, where it was even colder, because it was dark, and had dinner at the Shake Shack. The burgers were really good (and so were the fries, I'm told - I didn't have any), but man, they need more seating. Some really rude people left their coats on a table and didn't leave a person sitting there, so I sat on one bench and some other guy set on the other bench, until the people came back (and the moron was like, "I guess my plan wasn't foolproof." I felt like lighting into her, but I didn't. I didn't even make a not-really-sotto-voce nasty comment, though I wanted to. I am growing as a person!).
After we ate, we took the subway back down to Penn, and I put them on the train, and came back home. It was a good day.
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Hey, maybe I will attempt to write something tonight! It could happen!
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