Spring(?) Break - Day 5

It really is Spring. As the lovely red and yellow tulips in my front yard will proclaim.

Unfortunately Mother Nature didn't get the memo.
Houston we have a problem. That four letter word. Snow.

I know we need it so I tried to make the best of it.

I loaded the kids up into the red station wagon and headed over to the nearest campus of higher education. (This proves that I love my kids because I HATE driving on this campus. It's insane. My kids owe me. Big time. We are talking changing of Depends owing here.)

At the time we drove over it was only raining cats and dogs.

Our destination? The Museum of Art and the Walter Wick Exhibit.

Who is Walter Wick you ask?? Maybe this first shot will give you a clue.
He's the guy that does all the pictures for the I Spy books. I love these books. I wish they had been around when I was little. I would have loved them. I used the Richard Scary books instead. I loved those. Anyone remember those?

We got to the exhibit right as it opened because I knew that the rest of the county would be headed over there as well with the rain that was in the air. I'm glad we did too because as we were finishing up it was getting too crowded for my liking.

So join us if you will on our tour through this fun exhibit. (I took pictures and there were museum staff around while I took pictures and no one said anything. Then we went into another exhibit and they said I couldn't take pictures so I hope I wasn't breaking rules. I didn't see any signs that said no photography...plenty of signs that said no food or drink and Please do not touch but no signs about no pictures)

Throughout the exhibit they had the actual models that they used for the photographs in the books.

This first area had the models from Sky High. The models were all made from recycled stuff. It was cool. The picture that they were used in was above them but I couldn't get a good shot of it.
I love this robot shaped building. Thought it was very cool.

My favorite though was the movie theater that used
the water bottle and a pie tin in it's motif.

I think that this picture of the alphabet blocks was my favorite. I would love a big print of this in my house. And the blocks are actually a maze. You follow the letters to get through the alphabet to get from A-Z. Which is fun. Here is Jillian with the print. In the second shot she is pointing at the letter J for Jilli.I love the look on Jilli's face as she is looking at this print. I think she may have been looking for "Seymour" who was in a lot of the prints. He was a little clown type of toy that was hidden in amongst the other pictures.
This was an Alice in Wonderland type of picture where there were differences between the mirrors and what wasn't in the reflections. You were supposed to find the these differences. There were three different levels. At the highest level there were 32 differences that you could find. I think those are my favorite type of I Spy things. I love finding differences.

This is the one that McKenna liked the best and wanted her picture taken with.
McKenna bringing out her inner Vana or Prices Right model, showing off a village model.
This is George in front of Smugglers Cove. We have this book and love it.
And the model was George's favorite part of the exhibit.
He liked that you could push a button and the village would light up.
Some up close shots of the village. Isn't that moon cool?
This was a cool print called balloon pop. You tried to figure out how it was supposed to work for the balloon to pop. They they had a video next to it to show you if you figured it out right. Here are Jona and McKenna trying to figure it out.
A model of the shot Puss n' Boots.
This print is called Scary Shelf. I think the scary prints and pictures are my favorites that he does. There were a bunch in this exhibit but they were towards the end and the exhibit was filling up fast with kids that were running around and touching things that weren't supposed to be touched so it was time for us to leave.
This was a picture of a snowflake in another part of the museum. Very cool.

Another exhibit there was made up of things like black garbage bags, Styrofoam peanuts and partially burned out lights that were in a room so they looked kind of like a big strobe wall.

Here is a video of what they did with the Styrofoam peanuts and some blowers....



And my absolute favorite part of this whole trip? There was this cool huge rectangular art work that looked like orange fringed paper but it was actually little separate packages of orange duck sauce. (kind of like packets of ketchup) Stapled to look like fringe. I wanted to get a shot of McKenna in front of this cool orange rectangle but was rebuffed from taking pictures by a museum gaurd. Poo.

Ah well. When we came out it was sprinkling a little and we saw a couple of ladies from our ward pulling into the visitor parking as we were leaving. We then drove to Artic Circle for lunch and while we were there the four letter word began falling in earnest.

We now have about two inches in our front yard. And Jillian can now put "Built a snowman" on her resume of "What I did over Spring break." Oh yeah.