It was Labor Day weekend, Sarah was away on her retreat and the rest of us decided we had to do something that was a fun celebration of the end of summer. Jane finished calling Els and started to get ready
as Suzanne started down the stairs
where Benjamin
was finishing his book so we could head to the Olive Garden
where the menu
looked more or less like usual. Benjamin
was laughing, Suzanne
was pensive, Els
was camera shy, Jane
and David
were happy to engage the waitress
in conversation as the old lady
cooked. We began with their famous salad
David had ravioli with portobello mushrooms
Els had fettuccine
and Jane had chicken fettuccine
and Benjamin had the famous mack and chack
which Suzanne had bruschetta
My water tasted like soap, I just hope they didn't add any of this stuff to it.
With lunch under our belts, we were ready to move on. We passed this
massive limo
as we dropped Jane and Els
off to see Bubble Boy. Then we continued on to the Liberty Science Center
to see their exhibit on Grossology.
As we started to walk there
we paused for the obligatory phone booth picture
before speaking to this gentleman
who was happy to pose
after selling us a membership. This made Benjamin happy
as we met up with the Huberman sphere
and looked down on the exhibits.
We walked through the nose
to see the mucus
which looked quite gross
up close, but no worse than the snot
or the lady telling us about it.
Then it was on to burps and belches
where we stopped at the Burp-O-Meter
where this guy
told us how they're done and told us about
pop pressure. Next is was barf
then zits
before Benjamin climbed the face wall
we heard the gurgle, gurgle
and read about boogers
before shooting a few at the nostrils.
Benjamin played virtual soccer
moving very fast
but his virtuality
wasn't captured by the camera. We checked out the water factoid
did the bacteria thing
and had a discussion with this guy
about why our noses drip. Benjamin was shorter than this guy
and so could pretend he was poop
as he emerged from the anus.
We paused on the rooftop to record the NYC skyline
and the lady
and then a focus
on the World Trade towers. In the ecology section, we met this fish
and on the way out, we saw this racing car
which remined us to get gasoline on the way home.
On the way home we stop at Kwik-Fill
where they sell drinks in this building
and we got this much gas
because we had gone this far.
On the way home, we stopped at Bloomingdale's furniture clearance center.
The less said about the experience the better!