Rainy Day Movie, Food, and Games

May 26, 2012

Today we had to find some inside things to do because of the rain. We decided to check out a the movie "Attack of the Space Pirates" at the Fleishman Planetarium. I picked up Lacee at her friend, Ryley's, house and Ryley came along with us. The movie was...hmmm...how can I put this nicely...terrible!! I was bored stiff and Ryley fell asleep, but Lacee thought it was pretty good. So, it wasn't a total loss. After the movie we went to the arcade at Boomtown.

Until our next adventure . . .

King Tut

May 12, 2012

Since last week Lacee chose the auto museum, this week I chose the King Tut exhibit at Rancho San Rafael Park. The exhibit consisted of replicas of Egyptian artifacts including King Tut's tomb. It was kind of cool, but I think Lacee was less than impressed. We motored through the exhibit pretty quickly with her asking me to stop reading the signs describing the different artifacts. We spent the rest of our time together outside in the May Arboretum, walking through Rancho San Rafael Park, and having a picnic lunch in the park.

One of the rooms in the King Tut exhibit. 

Lacee under the jacaranda in the park.

We found a mosaic RAINBOW bench in the park! Super cool!

Today was another great day together!

Until our next adventure . . .

Auto Museum

May 5, 2012

For today's adventure I presented Lacee with three choices, Springfest at Somersett, the Nevada National Automobile Museum, or the King Tut exhibit at Rancho San Rafael Park. Surprisingly (at least to me) she chose to go to the auto museum. We headed downtown and had a bite to eat at Subway before going to the museum. We walked along the river on our way to the museum and stopped a couple of times to watch the swallows collecting mud for their nests. We had fun looking at all of the cool cars.

Strolling through the museum.

The museum provides costumes so you can dress up and take your photo in this old car.

This was a car in a special exhibit of cars from  Burning Man. This is the 5:04 car.
This car was smashed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, salvaged, given a paint job,
and turned into a work of art. It was the first "art car" displayed at Burning Man in 1991. Learn more at:
http://laughingsquid.com/the-504-pm-earthquake-car-burning-mans-first-art-car-on-display/

Until our next adventure . . .