For me, the best
part of living in a big city would be the museums. Okay, I would also love the prospect of zoos
as well. These are my favorite places to
visit on my travels. Even in our small
state, I love to go to our museum in Bozeman to see the cool traveling displays
that we are so fortunate to visit the state.
And our tiny zoo in Billings, I love to go for walks there when I have
time. So, when we travel, we try to make
time for going to museums and such. In
Houston, we made it to the museum but unfortunately not to the zoo. This just means we need to go back someday.
Now, I have to
admit that I do get tired of dinosaurs.
With my aching hip, I wasn't excited to go to Houston's Natural History
Museum. I thought I would go to a
section, wander a bit, and sit while Jerry took in the sights. I was so excited when we walked into one of
their traveling displays. The Gerd
Dreher, Life in Stone exhibit took my breath away. My artist date started right there. I only took pictures of my favorites. But, I know they will show up in a novel one
day. In fact, I know exactly which
series that I will have an artist like Gerd show up. I am pretty excited. Though he is the one showcased, his family is
five generations strong doing this work.
Amazing. Out of curiosity, I went
out on the internet to see about buying a piece. Nope, I am not rich. Maybe someday.
Next we wondered
through the space stuff. I loved the
wheel of the rover. Jerry loved this
section. I was hurting. We took a break and watched a planetarium
show about black holes. I enjoyed the
rest. However, with the five miles of
walking on a bad hip the day before, I was getting done with the museum. I found a comfy bench and watched people as
Jerry delighting in walking around the dinosaur section.
My bench sat
across from a Jurassic tree exhibit.
Another artist date type experience.
I snapped a few pictures and will work this somehow into a different
series I have in mind in a few years. I
would love a table made of this wood.
Beautiful.
As we thought
about leaving, we stumbled across and Egyptian exhibit. I love them as well. Jerry was so gracious and offered for us to
just leave, but he loves this stuff. I
told him to enjoy as I made my way through and we would meet at the end. He followed me, so I stopped at a few of the
benches. Someday, I would love to do a
study of Ancient Egyptian History and then go to a bunch of museums. They were a fascinating people. All in all, the day was a delight. I would have loved to go to the zoo, but I
was unfortunately done for the day.
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