Day at the Museum and other sordid tales

[midnitemaraud_r]

Ugh, I'm sick with a nasty cold, and my skin feels all thin and tingly in a bad way, and I can't even sit up, much less lie down without wriggling around like an exposed earthworm. UGH doesn't even begin to cover it.

So I will distract myself with fun things! Fun things like:

1. I am completely addicted to Earth_Pics on twitter. (They have an

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[thistlerose]

Wait, so does that mean you've never seen "Sesame Street Goes to the Museum" either? (It's set in the Met and, to this day, I can't enter certain rooms of that museum without hearing certain songs in my head.) For shame! I love that museum. Not quite as much as the AMNH, but close.

(I haven't been to the Statue of Liberty, either.)

Feel better!

[midnitemaraud_r]

Not only haven't I seen it, I'd never even heard of it. I see via wiki that it aired in November, 1983, which explains why. I was in 11th grade. :-P

I've been past the Met hundreds of times - even sat on the stairs! - but I'd never actually been inside until last Saturday. Whoops?

(Yay! Another one! I mean, for years the crown was closed, and why go there if you can't actually go up inside it? And now, you apparently have to wait on line in the morning for tickets, and it's a pain in the ass, and I just ... yeah, no.)

♥ Thanks!

[thistlerose]

My parents essentially believed in two museums: the AMNH and the Met. So we went there over and over as kids. I think there were others, and as an adult I know I've been to the Frick, the Morgan Library, the MOMA, the Cloisters, the Museum of the City of New York, the Rubin, and ... ack, the one where George Washington made his farewell address. I am blanking on the name. I've taken the ferry AROUND the Statue of Liberty a couple of times, but that's as far as it ever went. I don't like the thought of standing on line with the tourists. (Oh, and I've been to the two Jewish museums recently. The one on the upper east side and the one in Battery Park. More will probably occur to me

[midnitemaraud_r]

I'm trying to think if my parents ever took us to any museum.

...

Nope. But lots of tropical beaches! And a rain forest in Hilo. Priorities, we haz them! :-P (George Washington made his farewell address in NYC? And it's a famous place? ... There are Gaps. In the education. :-P)

OSCAR!!!! I love the muppets!

[thistlerose]

He did! At Fraunces Tavern! (I had to look up the name.) It's a museum AND a tavern.

*sigh* My parents didn't take me to any tropical beaches. Or rain forests. Except the ones in Disney World. I was always sad that my parents didn't take us out of the country, not even to Canada. THEY traveled extensively before we were born, but then they fell into ruts.

It was an awesome special. It's the only one I remember that had demons. And Egyptian gods. And a ghost kitty.

[midnitemaraud_r]

Huh. Of course it's down below Wall on Pearl. We'll have to go have a drink there sometime!

My sister and I wanted to go to Yosemite and the Grand Canyon, but we went to St. Maarten instead. :-P The rain forest was my parents' 25th wedding anniversary - they took my sis and I with them to Hawaii. (I wasn't going to complain!) My parents always took us with them when they traveled once we were old enough. It was a lot of fun, and we went to a lot of beautiful places, but we went for the beaches and the resorts, not for the cultural experience so much. And I've never really traveled much around the US. (Still never been to the Grand Canyon. Or Yosemite.)

I'll have to see if I can find the whole thing somewhere. It would be fun to watch, and who knows - the kids might like it too. They love all the muppet movies.

[fox1013]

DON'T EAT THE PICTURES

[onehundredmoons]

Yeah yeah yeah!

Lol... This special was a major part of my formative art-appreciating years.