Today we took a trip to St. Paul to go to the Science Museum. Helena has been talking about the Hubble Telescope because we’ve seen a billboard for it around town, and since it was the IMAX movie, we did that as well. It was the first time any of us have been to one of those. The screen may have been large, but I could have done without 35 minutes of watching astronauts screwing in bolts. The images of the Universe that the telescope has taken got short end of the stick in this movie.

But the kids did like the museum itself, although we’ve been there before, and they’ve gone with school or daycare. They ran to the musical stairs as soon as we got in, and they used up lots of energy in the play area.

Afterward, we went to Mickey’s Diner, where we got to see two men get arrested across the street. Helena and I laughed at the guy, who for some reason had his hands up in front of his face rather than over his head. I told Helena that he must have said, “I didn’t take the nut, some chipmunk did!”, which she laughed about for an hour.