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eve_primeThursday was the one day we had to spend however we wanted, from 9 a.m. 'til 5 p.m. (all-day childcare for D.) Getting a late start, the first order of business was returning to the meadow to look for the $15 or so that I'd apparently lost there on Wednesday. Amazingly, it was right there on the path, not blown away nor even damp from dew! Next we drove to the west campus neighborhood and walked about a mile around the south side of downtown; highlights were the stop in Eugene Toy & Hobby, where J. bought me an early birthday present (Settlers of Catan! I can hardly wait to finally try it!), and where he took a professional interest in the merchandise selection and pricing, and the mini-tour of our beautiful new public library (which I was also able to contrast with the old one, a couple blocks away).
Next, we moved the car south of campus and walked through the pioneer cemetery to the shady lawn south of Johnson Hall, where we ate lunch (same stuff as yesterday) and J. remarked several times on the "orangeness" of our squirrels' tails. The Chapel Hill squirrels, by contrast, look like a cross between our brown squirrels and our grey squirrels. Next we went to Fenton Hall so I could demonstrate how strangely indirect the route to the math library stacks is. I swear there are more than a dozen turns. Then to Willamette Hall, the gorgeous newish science building, where we had lots of fun with our digital cameras. We visited the EMU arcade; I wanted to try DDR, but it was in use, so we played some two-player thing called "Mr. Digger 2" or something, then we walked all the way to the Knight Library so I could show where I spend so much time. Finally, J. and I both wanted him to climb the huge beech tree. A group of students had raked all the leaves into a pile and were having grand fun leaping into them. J. climbed a spot a bit out of their way, and then they generously moved their leaf pile over to him!
J. on the fourth floor of Willamette Hall and in the beech tree:
In the evening, we watched Hidalgo with R. (and with D., who kept up a non-stop stream of questions and required pretty much a simultaneous translation of all the action into four-year-old terms, but really loved the movie, especially *ahem* the locust swarm and the sandstorm). After they'd gone to bed, we watched Twenty Million Miles to Earth, a Harryhausen flick I'd never seen, set in Sicily and Rome and starring yummy "Paul Drake" from Perry Mason; then we watched a Xena episode with Autolycus (the one with the large stolen statue, very funny).
It was 76 Wednesday but should be cooler today. I suppose we'll mostly read Falco novels...
Next, we moved the car south of campus and walked through the pioneer cemetery to the shady lawn south of Johnson Hall, where we ate lunch (same stuff as yesterday) and J. remarked several times on the "orangeness" of our squirrels' tails. The Chapel Hill squirrels, by contrast, look like a cross between our brown squirrels and our grey squirrels. Next we went to Fenton Hall so I could demonstrate how strangely indirect the route to the math library stacks is. I swear there are more than a dozen turns. Then to Willamette Hall, the gorgeous newish science building, where we had lots of fun with our digital cameras. We visited the EMU arcade; I wanted to try DDR, but it was in use, so we played some two-player thing called "Mr. Digger 2" or something, then we walked all the way to the Knight Library so I could show where I spend so much time. Finally, J. and I both wanted him to climb the huge beech tree. A group of students had raked all the leaves into a pile and were having grand fun leaping into them. J. climbed a spot a bit out of their way, and then they generously moved their leaf pile over to him!
J. on the fourth floor of Willamette Hall and in the beech tree:
In the evening, we watched Hidalgo with R. (and with D., who kept up a non-stop stream of questions and required pretty much a simultaneous translation of all the action into four-year-old terms, but really loved the movie, especially *ahem* the locust swarm and the sandstorm). After they'd gone to bed, we watched Twenty Million Miles to Earth, a Harryhausen flick I'd never seen, set in Sicily and Rome and starring yummy "Paul Drake" from Perry Mason; then we watched a Xena episode with Autolycus (the one with the large stolen statue, very funny).
It was 76 Wednesday but should be cooler today. I suppose we'll mostly read Falco novels...