So this week is spring break, and Cyndi and I have taken various days off work so we can be home with the kids. Monday, we had a general day at home. Tuesday, we went to the Ann Arbor Science Museum , always a favorite. This year, they had a theme of diet/foods, giving demonstrations of how much sugar is in various drinks, how to find the different areas of taste on your tongue. Aaron spent a lot of time in the video green room, making himself disappear on TV.
   Wednesday, we went downtown to the Detroit Institute of Arts and did some seeing, lunching and sketching. They had an exhibit we wanted to see of Ansel Adams, which everyone in the family enjoyed. I’ll try to post the sketches that Cyndi, Aaron and Arianna did. Adam and I spent time critiqueing all the art that we  classify as “3 year old-ism”. We all know this kind of art, which looks like a 3 year old painted, yet was bought at some exhorbitant price and intrepreted as “evoking life’s tension between good and evil, illustrating the futility in the struggle between man and nature.” We are convinced the artist would simply argue, “Hey, look, I just kind of threw some paint on the wall and it was a lot of fun to make, and I needed to pay the rent, you know?”
   Thursday, we slept in and I made breakfast, then we went bowling with a neighborhood friend, Mason. Arianna and the Mason bowled in the bumper lanes, while Dad, Adam and Aaron took our chances with genuine gutter balls. Dad started out with two strikes and three spares, then started thinking about what he was doing and destroyed his game. Everyone else got one strike, including Arianna(her first strike), probably the worlds slowest strike ever, because it took maybe ten seconds for all the pins to fall over as the little 6lb pound ball wandered around in all directions among them. And she didn’t hit the bumpers on the way down the lane, so it was a real strike.
   By now you’ve figured out that we forgot to take the camera with us and document all this activity, so I coaxed Aaron into fabricating an animation that captures the spirit of the day. I hope it animates on this blog.