arlene and i were up at 7:30 today so that eric, scott, and the two of us could leave for the train station by 8:30 to head up to new york for the day. scott went CD shopping while eric and i showed arlene some of the major landmarks downtown that she wanted to see (world trade center site, wall street, brooklyn bridge, statue of liberty), then we all met up at the natural history museum.
pause from happy story of my day to insert a small rant: the ticket people at the museum are inept. eric had 2 free admission stubs which he gave them, and they took them but wouldn't give him the discount... he asked for them back and we ended up paying full price (something about us being students instead of adults or something)... scott, on the other hand, came in at a different entrance than us. while we paid $16.50 each for admission plus a planetarium show each, scott paid $10 for admission and was told he could add a planetarium show later... the girl at the counter after he met up with us again insisted he couldn't just pay the difference but rather would have to pay $12 more for adding the planetarium show, so he just didn't... but it took 10 minutes of them yelling at him to make that clear... stupidly inept people. it's not a good system.
otherwise, the afternoon was fun... we saw the hall of meteorites and the hall of gems, and the hall of human evolution and biology before than planetarium, then a lot of dinosaur stuff after.
after the museum closed we showed arlene rockefeller center, had dinner at KFC, and then saw hairspray which was fantastically fun. :-)
a few (well 3) pictures to illustrate my day... i'll post several more on my website eventually.
enjoy.
scott, me, and eric waiting for the train to NYC this morning
arlene, me, eric, and a freakin huge rock at the museum
me and arlene, post hairspray
oh, here's the other fun part of the day. arlene slept the whole way home, and 80% of the way home eric and i had a "philosophical chat"... these generally go as follows: eric make a comment, silence while i think, i make a comment, silence while eric thinks, repeat. so i feel like it's too spread out to be a "chat", but really it is, i just want to make sure i make sense before the words come out. we were talking about how i think there's room for faith in a structured view of the world, whereas he sees faith as elevating a conjecture to a theorem without proof. no one won, but i think we both were able to present ourselves clearly, so it made for interesting food for thought... funny quote of the evening though...
eric was meaning to say "from my philosophical view", and instead came out with "from my falafel view,... (paused, laughed at himself),... i think we need some hummus"
ok, now i'm really done rambling... that basically sums up my day. :-P
paul and arlene were daring enough to commit to going to easter breakfast at church an hour earlier than service is... this means i'll be up in 6.5 hours... i should probably be asleep :-P
night y'all!
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