Off to Hogwarts

[billroper]

We joined Sam, Bonnie, Jerry, Eric, and Mike at the Museum of Science and Industry today to see the Harry Potter traveling exhibit. It was nicely done and certainly a chance to examine a number of the props close up. And as I observed to Sam, they apparently hadn't printed a textbook in that universe since 1925 or thereabouts, just from looking at the covers. :)

Julie had a brief meltdown during the Potter exhibit, but otherwise things went well. Katie was fascinated by the Foucault pendulum, the Fairy Castle, the big John Deere tractor (that she got to sit in), and the cable car and trains. We'd have stayed longer, but Julie was good and ready for her nap, so we headed out early.

Dinner was quesadillas and salad, followed by some strawberry shortcake, as strawberries are currently available at an excellent price.

And now it's time for little girls to go to bed. :)

Comments

[gorgeousgary]

Hee...Katie sounds like me in my young days. I'm told whenever my parents would take me to the National Museum of American History in DC, I'd make a beeline for the Foucault pendulum there and insist on watching until it knocked over a peg.

Sadly, the NMAH no longer has its pendulum. They removed it during the recent renovations.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

No, they just still print them the way they did in 1925. Because there are ways things are supposed to look, and school textbooks are supposed to look like that. :)

I quite like the idea of a world where they don't change the way they do things just because they haven't changed them lately.

[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on going to this with a girlfriend soon. She's driving over from the Detroit area, and then we're going to take the train from Grand Rapids to Chicago.

Do you know of any good, inexpensive hotels downtown?