A trip to the Art Musement

Charles and I took Logan to the Art Museum for the first time on Sunday, after her field trip there Tuesday was cancelled. Once she caught sight of the Grand Basin and Art Hill she was torn...mummies and the "Cap for Sale Guy" or running down the huge hill in the beautiful weather. But we told her the hill would be there when we came out and we'd still have time to run too.

So we started off to find the painting, she spotted Monet's "Waterlillies", we looked at "The Dancer", wandered through the Christian inspired art, Logan was impressed by a statue of the Virgin Mary with Child that was created in 1360, she thought it looked like it was made of wood. Then we found the painting, George Caleb Bingham's "The Verdict"...there is a man with 3 hats on that reminded Charles of "Caps for Sale". Logan wasn't all that impressed, time to go see the mummies.

On the way, we saw a statue thought was hilarious...a man scratching his tushy. Then we got to the mummies, looked at those for about three minutes and the inevitable "Can we go now?" occurred. We got her through the pre-historic period, Native American clothing, modern furniture and then she was ready to go, modern art impressed her not at all (I'm with her on that one!)

So we headed down the hill, having played two hockey games in less than twenty four hours I went a little slower than Logan and Charles. There were some idiots (college age boys of course) standing on the ice in the Grand Basin throwing a football, paying no heed to the fact that the ice behind them was thin but hey whatever. Of course Logan then wanted to try out walking on the ice too. Hey, I lived in Minnesota, I am all for pond skating but not when there are thin patches to be had. But Charles kept insisting that Logan would be fine on the ice, it was several inches thick, but yes...I was a worried mommy. She did stand out on the ice for a minute and walk around in a small half circle, but I really didn't feel good until she was back on the steps, but she really was fascinated by the ice, throwing it and seeing its thickness.

Then we headed back to the hill, she noticed several people flying kites and wished that we had brought one as well. Instead she used her imagination and I was very impressed by what she came up with. We found a string, she got a leaf, Charles tied one end of the string to the leaf and with the other she got the leaf airborne. It was so great to watch her delight in her creation and excitement when it worked. It was the perfect end to the weekend!

On the me front, I scored a goal in a game Saturday night, had an assist Sunday and was +5 overall for the weekend. Ronnie wouldn't let me transfer my stats from the Ice Holes game over to my Hericanes stats but in my head I'll be +3 on the season...and 3 points too : )