Aunt Amy!

 Visit from Aunt Amy this weekend. For entertainment on Saturday we all went to the art museum, for the last weekend of Extreme Materials 2. These are works out art made from unusual media, such as soap, packing tape, hat pins, pencils (see Kraken, below), bunt pans, breakfast cereal, band aids, and a number of bodily fluids and personal medical items from the edgier artists.

They were very artistic and interesting, and some were quite beautiful.

Amy and Sam are shown in front of a sculpture of sorts consisting of plastic spoons glued to the wall.

Sam loved the new art and kept excitedly running from artwork to artwork eagerly looking to see what they were made of, then running back to us to tell us.

We also viewed part of the regular collection. Shown are daddy and Josh next to "Analogy of Night".

It's a nice statue, but anyone who's had insomnia will tell you it's not a good analogy for night. Notice the star on her forehead and the moon in her right hand. And the smug look. Are those really enough to justify that title? You be the judge.

The museum has a large central hall upstairs the size of a gymnasium. I went through there with Josh on my shoulders.He immediately started whooping and waiting, testing out the acoustics. He was in heaven.

Yesterday we went to Mendon Ponds for Winterfest 2012. We ended up not seeing the main atractions--snowshoe, ski and sled-dog races, horse-drawn carriage rides, and some indoor activities.Instead, we just sledded for 1.5 hours. Sam often threw his head back and screamed, "THIS IS AWESOME!"

It was pretty good, too. :-)