Tomorrow if the weather is good we are going to Baltimore to watch a 14-story high-rise public-housing building be demolished with dynamite, you know, where the building sorta implodes. And then to the Walters to see an exhibit of Dutch and Flemish masters, Reubens and Van Dyck, and others, and the Archimedes palimpsest they just found and restored. I posted before that it was Euclid, and was very frustrated because I couldn't find the article. Aren't museums wonderful?
The National Gallery has shows by Cassatt, Caravaggio, and Ingres, the Phillips has Judith Rothschild, Georgia O'Keeffe and Calder. I could go on and on. Now I just have to put up with recalcitrant, not to say mulish, children, who'd rather be at an amusement park.
Oh, and Sunday, if it doesn't rain, we are going to park on the Virginia side of the Potomac and walk across to the D.C. side on the bridge between Arlington Cemetary and the Jefferson Monument, and trek as close as we can get to the Washington Monument, which is, I believe, Ground Zero for the big fireworks show. The kids are finally old enough not to worry about them running off and getting lost. I just have to remember not to drink anything - no water, tea, cokes, no liquids at all, and I'll probably do fine. |
