Art Museum adventure...

The last few years we've been going to the Art in Bloom event at the Minnesota Institute of Arts. This year the boys did not have school on Friday May 1st so we took an adventure to see the flowers and artwork. I told the boys when we got into the car where we were heading and much to my surprise they were really excited about a visit to that museum. They started listing off things they remembered from past years, things they wanted to look for again this year. I'm not a huge art museum person, but I love a good indoor activity when its raining outside, but I'm glad they now think museums are cool.

We arrived right when they opened but they were already quite busy. We bought tickets to go see their special exhibit. It was going to cost $20 for me and $10 for Oliver, Lucius is still young enough to be free. When I went to pay the awesome man behind the counter said he'd give us Oliver's ticket for free! Score- love it when nice surprises happen. we walked around taking a few pictures before we could get into the special exhibit- The Hapsburg Collection Exhibit.

Lucius and Oliver love taking pictures and they do a pretty good job. Plus it engages them into finding things they don't usually stop to notice, giving me more time to take their pictures or look at things myself.

 It's only too bad we couldn't take pictures in the special exhibit cause they were soon bored. They both really loved seeing the jousting horses and armor on display and the little movie playing beside it about jousting. Then they were finished- and it was just the first gallery. Oh well, we had a little chat about being nice and taking it all in for my sake.

We walked back to our car for a picnic lunch after we made it through the Hapsburg stuff. Then they decided they weren't done, so we went back inside to find what they wanted to look at. Taking more pictures along the way and seeing fun flowers too.

Here's a few photos I took with my big camera: