Potatoes O'Brian and ancient history...
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msfledermausI'm really enjoying this Saturdays-off thing. Yesterday was amazing!!! Just blissfully sunny and fun. The Pink Satan has come back briefly in between a pharmaceutical drug-trial she's involved in. (She's helping to test a couple of new antidepression drugs. Very brave, I call it.)
We snooped around the Farmer's Market in St. Paul, then had a bit of brunch at Mickey's Diner. (I really didn't expect to eat so much of the O'Brian potatoes...but I did. Mickey's has that effect of people.)
Chock-full of potato, we staggered off to the Science Museum, where we saw a motion-sicknessy film about the wonders of Greece and then saw the Pompeii exhibit. It was amazingly full of artifacts and some very good reproductions--I particularly liked the frescos on display. I know how the process works, thoughI've never had the opportunity to try it myself, but it never fails to impress me just how vivid the colors are after nearly 2000 years of burial. There was a room tucked away from the main exhibit with the casts of the people who died trying to get away from the eruption. It was just inexpressably sad. It was all I could do not to reach over to the casts of the crouched man holding a cloth to his face in his last breath and try to comfort that poor sad shadow of a horrible event.
Also, there was a very good set of labels detailing the reality of Pompeii as a town before the explosion. Bits of graffiti, a recipe for an appalling sounding fish-paste, and details of how the baths were set up and how laundry was done. (With urine for the whites--eeeeeew. I love my washing machine like never before;) I could have spent hours there, browsing in the stones and the pottery, the beautiful furniture and tiny votaries.
And now I get to put the clip-on tie on soon and hopefully I'll get put on second floor, where I can check out the fresco-piece we have from Pompeii, hung all alone on it's wall, and appreciate it even better than before. I love history so much:)
We snooped around the Farmer's Market in St. Paul, then had a bit of brunch at Mickey's Diner. (I really didn't expect to eat so much of the O'Brian potatoes...but I did. Mickey's has that effect of people.)
Chock-full of potato, we staggered off to the Science Museum, where we saw a motion-sicknessy film about the wonders of Greece and then saw the Pompeii exhibit. It was amazingly full of artifacts and some very good reproductions--I particularly liked the frescos on display. I know how the process works, thoughI've never had the opportunity to try it myself, but it never fails to impress me just how vivid the colors are after nearly 2000 years of burial. There was a room tucked away from the main exhibit with the casts of the people who died trying to get away from the eruption. It was just inexpressably sad. It was all I could do not to reach over to the casts of the crouched man holding a cloth to his face in his last breath and try to comfort that poor sad shadow of a horrible event.
Also, there was a very good set of labels detailing the reality of Pompeii as a town before the explosion. Bits of graffiti, a recipe for an appalling sounding fish-paste, and details of how the baths were set up and how laundry was done. (With urine for the whites--eeeeeew. I love my washing machine like never before;) I could have spent hours there, browsing in the stones and the pottery, the beautiful furniture and tiny votaries.
And now I get to put the clip-on tie on soon and hopefully I'll get put on second floor, where I can check out the fresco-piece we have from Pompeii, hung all alone on it's wall, and appreciate it even better than before. I love history so much:)
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