Winter Aunt Amy Visit

Fun weekend visit from Aunt Amy!


These are always quick trips, especially when Amy has to drive back on Sunday. Highlights included a trip to the Science Museum on Saturday afternoon, and a family movie night that evening. At the Science Museum we saw a new exhibit which consists of about a dozen animatronic dinosaurs.

They swung their heads to and fro looking menacing (carnivores) or irenic (herbivores). To a t they all sound like giant, loud, hungry, scary birds. I think the two things which scientists really can't determine with any certainty are the color and sound of dinosaurs, but they don't let that stop them. If there had been a aviatic era in addition to jurassic--an era when birds ruled the earth--I suspect scientists would have cardinals and robins sounding like Godzilla as well.

Family movie night was Despicable Me, recommended by Aunt Ruth and others. Thanks for the recommendation--it was great fun and had some laughing uncontrollably several times.

In it, an evil genius adopts three orphan girls for his own nefarious purposes, and ends up loving and caring for them. I wonder what Sam thought as he saw the three girls waiting to be adopted?

On the way to the museum I drove by a house which always has the most amazing snow sculptures. We were lucky enough to talk recently to the fellow who makes them, and learned some of his methods. He colors them using colored water in spray bottles. The trick to building them, though, is to take snow inside his sun room in big bins, to allow them the snow to melt a little so it holds together better. His methods work very well.

Other than that, a quiet weekend. Got to see Amy's Israel scrapbook again, prior to her second trip coming up in March. Even now she is driving back to her world. Greetings from ours!