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!