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[threemeninaboat]

The buffalo tamales are a bit dry. I think I'd put green chili in them. But they're good and better than buying food when I'm hungry.
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Today we took william_miller to The Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Someone gave me 2 free passes that had to be used up before the 31st and as a student I get in for $6, we really got our $6 worth of entertainment. We found two gnomes. The "Nature" part was either dinosaurs (TWO dinosaur exhibits), or dioramas. The "Science" part was Mars. Kids were going freaking bananas in the Mars exhibit, I have no idea what was even going on since so many damn kids were blocking and hogging every station. Birth Control. You kids have your own museum, it's called The Children's Museum. Let us Scientists to our museum.
The animals in the dioramas are really small. Except for the walrus. I guess they shrink, a lot, when they get taxedermied.
There were glacier pictures of the glacier I hiked in Iceland. That was cool.

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I was given the book, "The best make-ahead recipes" from the editors of Cooks Illustrated, for my crock pot and freezer meal marathon. Problem- it's all American comfort food. Low on veggies, big on pork and beef. I didn't really find anything that I went, "Oh wow, I can't wait to try that, that sounds so good!"

Comments

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

heh! Kids! Interested in Science! Yah! I'd not be complaining about this. I suspect the Children's museum is boring in comparison.

-B.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

'Interested' as in learning is good. 'Interested' as in running around grabbing things and yanking them around and jumping up and down on top of them, maybe not so good.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

The Children's Museum is awesome and provides many an outlet for kids going berzerk on the combination holidays/bad weather/sugar high. COMBINED with science fun.
One of the only things I dislike about being an adult is that I am too tall for The Children's Museum. I remember interactive exhibits about hydroponics, bubble tension, paper making, the weather, nutrition, physics, Legos, indoor skiing, how radio waves/microwaves/lasers work. WAAAAYYY more fun than the Nature and Science Museum.

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

Kids are out of school for the holidays and are driving their parents insane. The parents sick of the destruction at their own houses are bringing the kids out into the world so they can expend that energy in destroying something that someone else has to clean up.

[okterok.livejournal.com]

Re: kids, not all kids suck and my kids love the museum and would go if we had money ;)

re: make ahead stuff, as hoaky as it sounds weight watchers has lots of crock pot meals and they try and focus now a lot on veggies.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

pack behavior is interesting.

thanks!

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

The Mars exhibit is not all that interesting. It has a lot of interactive displays which could explain it's popularity with kids.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

I think the only square inch in the whole museum that was not covered in kids was the roped-off parts. Even then, they were working hard to breach any spot.

[william-miller.livejournal.com]

Those taxidermied animals kinda made me want to make weird creepy art projects...