One of the highlights of our recent trip to Philadelphia was visiting the Please Touch Museum. It’s similar to the Imagine It! children’s museum in Atlanta, but on a much grander scale. It is housed in a building that was constructed for our nation’s bentenial celebration in 1876. The grand building looks like it belongs on the mall in Washington D.C. You would never guess that it has a museum for children inside.
Philadelphia had many first class attractions. I only wish we had arranged to stay longer and see more of them.
In case you haven’t noticed, I have blogged nearly every day this week. And some days (including today), I have blogged multiple times. I still have lots of things to post, including Mackenzie’s 3K graduation from last month. I think I’ll go have a cookie now.
If it’s not obvious, I’m clearly avoiding school-work by blogging. (I have two more projects to turn in before Tuesday. One is 75% done and I haven’t started the other.) I’m also considering promoting this blog more to my friends, etc. via facebook and twitter, so I need to populate it with lots of content.
Next week, I’ll be blogging live from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Stay tuned . . .
This morning, after running a quick 7:30AM 5K, we met some of my colleagues for a trip down the Ocmulgee. We went with Ocmulgee Expeditions, which is one of the best kept secrets here in town.
They put us in the river at Water Works Park and we paddled/drifted for about 4 miles to the Riverwalk. The kids loved it. It was amazing how we were right in the middle of town, but it seemed like we were out in the middle of nowhere. Even when we passed by the trails, you couldn’t see anyone because we were so low in the river.
My sister got the opportunity to ask Clark Howard a money question . . . and get her two minutes of fame. This was obviously before she had her baby. Check it out:
Although the season ended weeks ago, T-ball officially ended Tuesday night with a party at Stevie-B’s. T-ball is a mistake I will never make again. We originally decided to put Tristan into team sports so that he would learn that you aren’t always a winner. Of course, we ended up on a disfuctional team that couldn’t ever win. Unless Tristan specifically asks to do team sports again, that chapter in our lives is over.
And yes, those are Silly Bandz that my kids are sporting in the first photo.
This morning, I had the opportunity to climb the clocktower at work to shoot some photos.
The clock is not currently functional. In fact, it’s always 12:00. That may change soon.
There are small household lightbulbs which illuminate the clock at night. These could easily be changed out with some colored party bulbs to really add some awesomeness to the Macon skyline.
The old wooden ladder below is used to service the clock. When my boss traversed up the ladder, you could hear it cracking. I let him snap the first picture above.
When you are up that high, you have to walk out onto the balcony and check out the marble accents and the view of downtown Macon. It is the highest point in town. I usually take fellow staff members (and sometimes friends) to the roof, seen in the bottom left below. The roof is an easy climb, the clocktower however, is much higher.
There are actually two levels above this. This diagonal metal ladder takes you another 30 or so feet to another level with a balcony and then a vertical ladder takes you another 20 or so feet to the top.
Here is the entire clocktower. You can see how much higher you can go than simply inside the clock face. I wouldn’t want to be in there during a thunderstorm!
The balcony I went out on is actually in the bottom left. It doesn’t look so high now!
Last week, we wrapped up our third year of swimming lessons with Bragg Swim School. Tristan took lessons in 2008, both kids took lessons last year, but only Mackenzie took lessons this year. She did MUCH better this year.
Now, it’s time to get our travel on and find some pools to put those new skills to use!
