crazy museum trip
Last Friday was Food Truck Friday along with an Art Walk in downtown Duluth. None of the food trucks were all that great this time but the weather was nice and we brought Friendship along. There was an artist doing caricatures of people and Victor insisted on asking him if he'd do one of Friendship. The guy took a picture of him and did it! It looks like Mr. Friendship! The art walk was small but nice. David, the guy whose pottery we bought at the silent auction last week, was there with his pottery wheel and dog. The events in Duluth are always smaller than those in neighboring Suwanee but in a way, I like it for that fact. Everything is a reasonable size and it feels more like a community event rather than some big, impersonal festival.
Saturday my parents came over and we went to the Michael C. Carlos Museum. I had gotten tickets on Groupon. They have an exhibit on Roman maps from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. I thought my dad would be interested and had called him up earlier in the week to see whether he wanted to come so that I could buy the Groupon. He had said he did want to come and my mom too. I hadn't thought it was something she'd be interested in but he said she'd be coming. That was sort of a mistake...
They arrived at our house at 12:30 and my mom opens a bottle of wine she'd brought. We're supposed to be heading out to a museum and she opens a bottle of wine! I had thought we were leaving right when they got here but that didn't happen for another hour because of her drinking her wine and the both of them having to take a few cigarette breaks. After we got to the museum and had only been there about half an hour (and had only really been in the first big room), they said they were going to the bathroom. They were gone for about 20 minutes because they had also gone on a smoke break. When they came back my mom said she was hungry because she'd hardly eaten anything all day and wanted to go to lunch at some place across the street. She also gave the impression that they wanted to go home right after eating lunch. Since she knew she was going to a museum that day I don't know why she didn't eat lunch before she left her house like Victor and I had. We'd only been at the museum for less than an hour! We told them just to go to lunch without us. If I pay to go to a museum, I want to see the museum! It was completely crazy. They wanted to meet us in an hour so that was just one hour to rush through the rest of the museum and try to see everything. And that's what we had to do. We rushed through the rest and didn't get to see everything and spent little time looking at what we did see. This is what I had planned to do for the day and it kind of got ruined :-( Why do you want to go to a museum if you are only going to spend 30 minutes there and then leave? You've had to pay for tickets and parking so you'd think you'd want to make the most of it.
I really liked the museum and I think Victor and I are just going to go back by ourselves so we can see everything. So that's more $$$. The Roman map exhibit won't be there much longer though and I don't know if we can fit it in before it closes. Ancient history is so interesting to me - I could spend all day there. The Roman maps exhibit had two X-boxes where you could walk through the streets of Renaissance Rome. It was based on a real Renaissance map that was hanging on the wall. It was very neat. It was also the first time I'd been on the Emory campus. Lots of marble buildings which is different from what I think of when I think of college campuses.
Saturday my parents came over and we went to the Michael C. Carlos Museum. I had gotten tickets on Groupon. They have an exhibit on Roman maps from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. I thought my dad would be interested and had called him up earlier in the week to see whether he wanted to come so that I could buy the Groupon. He had said he did want to come and my mom too. I hadn't thought it was something she'd be interested in but he said she'd be coming. That was sort of a mistake...
They arrived at our house at 12:30 and my mom opens a bottle of wine she'd brought. We're supposed to be heading out to a museum and she opens a bottle of wine! I had thought we were leaving right when they got here but that didn't happen for another hour because of her drinking her wine and the both of them having to take a few cigarette breaks. After we got to the museum and had only been there about half an hour (and had only really been in the first big room), they said they were going to the bathroom. They were gone for about 20 minutes because they had also gone on a smoke break. When they came back my mom said she was hungry because she'd hardly eaten anything all day and wanted to go to lunch at some place across the street. She also gave the impression that they wanted to go home right after eating lunch. Since she knew she was going to a museum that day I don't know why she didn't eat lunch before she left her house like Victor and I had. We'd only been at the museum for less than an hour! We told them just to go to lunch without us. If I pay to go to a museum, I want to see the museum! It was completely crazy. They wanted to meet us in an hour so that was just one hour to rush through the rest of the museum and try to see everything. And that's what we had to do. We rushed through the rest and didn't get to see everything and spent little time looking at what we did see. This is what I had planned to do for the day and it kind of got ruined :-( Why do you want to go to a museum if you are only going to spend 30 minutes there and then leave? You've had to pay for tickets and parking so you'd think you'd want to make the most of it.
I really liked the museum and I think Victor and I are just going to go back by ourselves so we can see everything. So that's more $$$. The Roman map exhibit won't be there much longer though and I don't know if we can fit it in before it closes. Ancient history is so interesting to me - I could spend all day there. The Roman maps exhibit had two X-boxes where you could walk through the streets of Renaissance Rome. It was based on a real Renaissance map that was hanging on the wall. It was very neat. It was also the first time I'd been on the Emory campus. Lots of marble buildings which is different from what I think of when I think of college campuses.