Saturday we got up wicked early and trekked on in to town to visit the Museum of Science. The purpose: to visit the Star Wars exhibit before it leaves next month. With the Library pass, the cost of admission was much less than normal, but the downside was that we couldn’t reserve our tickets online and plan around a specific time to get there.<\/p>\n
Instead we had to go, as I mentioned, wicked early. We arrived shortly after the place opened, found E, and discovered we could get tickets for Star Wars right then if we wanted. (I had been concerned that we’d be stuck with a 3:00 entry or something like that, and would thus have to kill the whole day until we could see it.) We decided to go for it and headed right on over.<\/p>\n
The exhibit was pretty nice, if geared toward a slightly younger audience than us. When we entered, around 9:30, it was already pretty crowded, so any of the interactive portions (of which there were many) had lines in front of them. Thus, by the time it got to be your turn to play with the toys, you’d already watched half a dozen people do it, and the thrill was gone. I think it would have been more fun if there had been a bit more space and more spots at the activities.<\/p>\n
Still, there were lots of models and actual costumes and most of the displays had not only the usual museum placards next to the items, but also a short video featurette relating to the items there. It was pretty well put together, and in order to let everyone in who wanted to see it, I can see why there were as many people allowed in at a particular time as there were. If we’d been more patient we could have tried everything, but after we looked around for a bit, we decided to exit.<\/p>\n
After a quick tool around the gift shop and a stop by the museum cafe for some much needed snacks, we hit the museum proper. E and I have both been there many times before, so we went through things kind of fast. Bob didn’t seem to mind, but it’s often hard to read him. After a pause to watch a portion of the lightning show and a spin through the computer lab (which has been completely redone since I was last there; it used to be a place with computer\/memory\/IQ kind of games, but is now more just internet stations) we decided to go have lunch.<\/p>\n
We had earlier determined that Bob had never been to the Hilltop, so we retrieved the car and drove to Saugus to find the plastic cows. The wait wasn’t very long, and for a few moments, we were treated to the diversion of some people the cops had pulled over right in front of the restaurant. But sadly they moved into the parking lot and out of sight before our table was ready.<\/p>\n
E, who seems to have bad luck a lot of the time at restaurants, got her burger brought with the middle part still raw. It got sent back and a new one was supplied, and they comped our drinks for us as a result. No one had a problem with this. After we delivered her back to her condo, Bob and I drove home, stopping at the Cheesecake Factory on the way for some dessert. Much to our surprise, the mall there was a complete madhouse, with even the overflow parking lots filled to capacity. We could not (and still can’t) figure out why. Saturday in the middle of March is not the height of the shopping season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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