a day away

sena and i spent a really nice day in new haven last week. we went to the yale university peabody museum, to a nice cafe for lunch, back to the museum in the afternoon, then a nice vegetarian restaurant for dinner, and we ended with an unplanned, but very exciting visit to a planetarium. sena loved the peabody, especially their dinasaur and mamal evolution exhibits. we both liked the geology exhibit a lot. there was an entomology exhibit as well, and we tried to identify insects that we see around our farm and find out more info about them. there was another exhibit i really liked, on black holes, but sena was not too interested in that. there were some school kids running around that one, and sena wanted to get out of there. there was a big difference between sena and the school kids that were visiting the museum. some of them really didn't want to be there, you could tell, and only came because their class did. so they made a lot of noise and were pretty disruptive. sena really wanted to read and look at the exhibits, so we ended up just trying to go to the parts they weren't at first. after they left, it was more peaceful and we could go wherever we wanted.

by the end of the day sena was pretty tired, but i convinced her to come to the planetarium anyway. it was well worth it. we saw the night sky and had an astronomer point out different planets and other things of interest. we also saw a short movie on the search for water in the universe. i always feel awe when our lives are put in perspective this way. i am always blown away about how amazing the universe is. also, whenever i see a picture fo the earth taken from space, i instantly want to cry. it just seems so beautiful, and i feel so protective of it.

it was a really nice day, and i felt very inspired at the end of it. i think sena learned a lot, and most of all, we both had a great time hanging out together.

peace