Mommy: "Do you want to go the beach today?"
Addie: "No, I want to go a museum."
Sunday morning was sunny, warm, clear skies and gorgeous. The perfect day to go to the beach. Only Addie didn't want to. She said it would be too windy. After much convincing, we got in our swim gear (as if we go in the water but we pretend), made pb&j sandwiches, packed our beach bag and gathered the sand toys. Off we went until we hit the west side, a bank of dense, low cloud cover and a temperature that read 68 degrees. Um, what happened to sunny skies? Darn it if it Addie wasn't right! So we turned around on PCH and headed back to sunny mid-city and to Addie's original plan. Luckily she hasn't figured out the phrase, I told you so.
We hadn't been to see the new Renzo Piano designed Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum yet where, incidentally, my firm did all the engineering. LACMA has a cool (and free!) kids membership called NextGen which gets her and a parent into the museum at no charge until she's 18. Awesome.
Addie ran though the 99 cent store installation . . .
. . . ran through the lamp post installation . . .
. . . and ran after the pigeons.
She thankfully didn't run while inside the museum. We already were reprimanded for having her on Cap's shoulders and for not holding her hand while in 25 feet of the Jeff Koon's giant blue balloon dog should she make a mad dash for it and defile it's shiny surface with peanut butter fingers.
I'm really glad we ended up at BCAM, and next time we'll listen when she has an idea for a weekend adventure!
Check out a few more pics from our museum outing.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I want to go to a museum
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4 comments:
Love that museum girl! I can't wait to see BCAM as well but I'll try not toget too close to the Jeff Koons with my sticky fingers, oh those museum guards!
What an absolutely incredible and beautiful series of photos, Sarah. Well done!
I have my Jeff Koons (not giant)balloon dog still in the original wrap in the box. No sticky fingers there either!
You have raised a truly wonderful little muffin. I love that she chose a museum over the beach (she truly has the quainton genes in her)!
and boo hiss on BCAM - koons is only made better by butter finger prints... art is meant to be interactive and subjective right? i think addie would have made it better with PBJ paw prints! :)
Addie looks like she's skimming over the ground! I love the "She Said What?" section. Keep them coming!
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