Artsy Fartsy

Jared had the day off Saturday, yeah! (That's rare for us folks!) We went to the Art Museum for a cultural experience. Carter went with his school class a couple months ago so he was our official tour guide. We had so much fun! There were a lot of amazing pieces, Picasso, Monet, Warhol, and a lot of really fun modern and contemporary pieces. The boys wore out long before Jared and I . We managed to find enough fun stuff to keep them entertained, they lasted 3 hours... that's longer than we stay at the children's museum. (Probably because we have a pass and can go back anytime we like). My favorite part was when we were walking through one of the exhibits and this guy walks up to me, motions to my boys and says, "you have 3 beautiful pieces of art here." I think I was self conscious most of the time and interpreted the stares from fellow museum guests as, "why are you here with all these little boys!" Who knows, maybe they were just admiring the art. (ha ha) Needless to say it was a welcome compliment.

We got caught in the rain on the way into the museum, hence Cam is wearing my coat. You gotta love going to the museum on a rainy day. The architecture of the art museum is pretty spectacular, it is a piece of art in and of itself.

Gage thought this one looked like balloons. Once he got close enough to see that it was blown glass rather than balloons he took interest in the spider crawling on the floor rather than the art. Boys will be boys!

This was a fun piece titled "Overstimulated." The TV screens were changing so fast you couldn't see what was on them. I thought it was pretty creative. The picture doesn't do it much justice.

Carter says, "That's not art. It's just a shovel and some dirt!"

The boys had a lot of fun trying out all of the different chairs in this exhibit. They were all different and they really got a kick out of trying each one out. It was great because it was something they could touch!

Carter and Gage really liked the glass cases with armour in them. They even got to try on some of it, see the picture of Gagers below.

Playing "I Spy". Our tour guide (Carter) showed us some fun things hidden in this piece. The art docent even came by and played with us.

Staring contest.

One of the exhibits had a bunch of magnifying glasses so that you could really see all of the detail in the pieces of art (they were paintings of animals). It was pretty amazing but we found an alternate use for the magnifying glasses. We were pretty entertained. *keep in mind we were trying to keep two little boys engaged and out of trouble!

* You'll have to excuse the poor lighting on so many of our pictures... flash photography wasn't allowed. Hence the blurry pictures.