Went to the Como Zoo this morning and looked at a bunch of caged-up animals. I feel bad sometimes walking around looking at them and then saying “poor tiger” or “poor birds.” But in actuality, this zoo gave most animals a lot more room than I’ve seen in other zoos… Omaha in particular. Actually, Omaha is the only other zoo I can recall… but they seemed to have very large open areas for small numbers of animals.
Then the plan was to go to the Science Museum. We found a place to park and then attempted, in vain, to find a cheap place to eat. Ended up going to the “St. Paul Grill.” They did have a couple things under $10…. burgers. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, and we were told later of a couple better/cheaper places to eat. But the burgers were good, even if we felt underdressed in such a ritzy place!
The science museum was ok. I wouldn’t say stellar, but there were a bunch of interactive exhibits that we got to play with. My engineering desire to play with toys came in a few times. And I taught Amanda a thing or two about calculus and slow pendulums. 😉 Electricity too… something about resistors and capacitors. Like I said… it was okay, but we might have enjoyed it a little more if we were younger or had kids with us.
Back home, we treated our hosts to TGIFridays, and then Amanda and Julianne beat Michael and me three times in Sequence. 🙁 I still think they were hiding jacks up their sleeves!