Saturday, September 21, 2013

Spider Pavilion (and also How Glenn Is Amazing)

Glenn did the most amazing thing this morning!  He participated in a race sponsored by the dental school.  There is a big pool of money that everyone who runs the race gets a share of.  If you finish the race in under an hour, you get two shares of the money.  If you also beat the dean of the school, you get three shares of the money.  The race is 5 miles, which I think sounds hard anyway, but it is also up a mountain the whole way!  So you race 5 miles to the summit, and then you can go back whatever speed you want, because the race is over.  ANYWAY, Glenn did it in less than an hour and beat the dean!  I'm so proud of him!

Since Violet and I had the morning to ourselves, and today they opened the spider pavilion at the NHM for members only, we decided to walk over there.  Here was Violet's reaction to the spiders:
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And then she promptly turned around and left.  Haha!  I don't blame her though, the spiders were creepy.  Here is the best shot I got of one.
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The big ones were about the size of your hand, including the legs.  Violet did enjoy making a spider crown after we left the real spiders, and wore it the rest of the time we were at the museum.  She kept telling me, "Mom, I look so cool!".  
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I also managed to get a couple of pictures of Violet in parts of the museum BESIDES by the polar bear and dueling dinos, for once.

Sabertooth cats are one of Violet's favorite things right now, so I got a picture of her with one of those:
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Fun with antlers:
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4 comments:

  1. That fact that you willingly went in the same area as giant spiders may give me nightmares tonight.

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    1. Haha! Yeah, I was totally trying to act like it wasn't a big deal, so Violet wouldn't be scared, but the it was freaky! There were webs with BIG spiders in them that you could run into if you weren't looking where you were going!

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  2. We saw some big spiders at the nature preserve yesterday and I went as far away from them on the trail and as quickly as I could under them. They actually looked a lot like the ones we say.
    Go Glenn!

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