july 27. 2012
when we called ahead and set up dossier’s for each age group, it made the whole art experience so much more enjoyable. things i would normally just walk by, the dossier was able to explain why the artist did what he or she did, and things to look for. we had quite a good sized group, and i was able to go with the older group, which only had two kids in it. it made it so much more enjoyable being in a small group.
july 20. 2012
we went and saw john reep at a comedy club here in denver, who’s from hickory! he was on the comedian tv contest and won. his bit was great, and clean. the acts before him weren’t so clean. why can’t people be funny without swearing? or crude content? it was a fun night, i was glad to be out with jarom, and spend time with him. he’s fun to be with!
july 21. 2012
wow, this exhibit was amazing, beautiful. da vinci was so inspired, keeping over 40,000 notebooks of ideas and inventions. i believe what albert einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world…” oh, how you could see this in da vinci’s inventions. his ideas, thinking, understanding, resolving…it is a world of inspiration.
there are only two da vinci exhibits in the world right now. one in europe, and one in the u.s., and the u.s. exhibit happened to be here in denver. and thank goodness for living social deals-i love those too. makes things a little more do-able with a family of six.
this was a fun family outing, and i hope that these things will one day inspire my girls to not only be hardworking and knowledgeable, but a dreamer and a user of their imaginations. somehow, with the demands of adulthood, comes seriousness. i also want to dream.
july 20. 2012
the denver butterfly pavillion, largest invertebrate museum was really neat. i wouldn’t recommend a family pass for the year, because you only need to visit it once, really. but if you haven’t been, i highly recommend. it is a lot of fun, and quite interactive with hundreds of live species. we really enjoyed the butterfly exhibit itself…1,600 free flying tropical butterflies in their rain forest…beautiful!
july. 2012
so much fun to learn about space, planets, and see saturn itself! it was a fun night field trip, and jarom got to join us, which made it even better. afterward, we went to the park across the street, and had fun swinging and playing with the kids. overall, a fun night! of course, we had to include pic’s of us in the car heading over to the field trip, and the beautiful meadow by our house that we pass everyday.
july. 2012
we had a lot of fun learning about ice cores, taken miles beneath the earth’s surface. they are taken from greenland and from antarctica. i can’t imagine the months spent down there in the freezing cold, not a lot of things to do, it’s dark a lot of the time…could get very depressing! so thank goodness for people who will do anything in the name of science, because i definitely wouldn’t! going into the -10 and -40 freezers was the highlight, and of course, some were dared to go in without a coat-and they survived!
