Day 1740. All the kids went to kindergarten this morning, while I had two students from 10 to noon. Then I went to the kitchen to cook, while Randy left to go pick up Sammy. They always return at 12:40, and I had just started eating. The kids all eat at the kindergarten. Randy turned around to go get the other two kids, while Sammy and I had a good time at home. The others returned just after 2 pm. I was so tired and wanted to lie down and close my eyes a bit, but I never got to do so.
Just after 3 pm we all left the house together. It was colder again because it was raining a little. We took the subway to the end, then a bus for two stops, then walked to the museum we were going to visit today. It was the "museum of illusions". It was a coincidence that I had found out about it, and I thought it sounded fun and interesting to do. As I had done my students in the morning (as they didn't have school today), I had no students in the afternoon, and we could do this trip.
When we got to the museum, there was a long line. It didn't take long for Sammy to start getting upset. Lines are not his thing, and this line was moving extremely slowly. So I went to the front of the light and talked to the museum employee there, and she allowed us to skip the line and walk straight in. Thank God!
There were pictures on the walls that had illusions on them - holograms and the like. We looked at them and then walked into a room. I had read about the photo ops they had in the museum, and there was one right there. We had to wait a little for our turn, then I decided to be in the picture. However, Randy didn't take the picture right. So we tried again, and this time it was Tammy and Randy in the picture, and it worked out. It looks like a tiny Tammy standing on a chair.
We looked at some of the other stuff in the room, then walked into the next room. It was the one where you could appear to be really strong. Tammy is holding up Emmy, and I'm holding the wheelchair with Sammy high up into the air. In the next room over, we didn't take the picture correctly. I hadn't seen the instructions and there was no museum employee there.
We then saw more illusions, like green, hanging pyramids that were black hanging cubes, when looking at them from a different perspective. And there was a caleidoscope. The kids looked inside, and I took their pictures, their image being multiplied multiple times. Then there was a little room full of mirrors that also multiplied us, and there was a bridge with a projection of moving stars or so around us. On that bridge you felt like you were spinning, so I left before getting sick.
There was also a table that gave the illusion that people's heads were served on a platter. The kids enjoyed it. And there was a box there to go into, where it looked like the people on one side were a lot smaller than the people on the other side. A really cool illusion, but it only comes across on the pictures, not when you're there.
We walked on and saw a few more cool things. There was a picture, where you saw nothing special standing close to it, but saw Albert Einstein, when looking at it from a distance. And there was a picture of two identical shapes, where one looked so much bigger than the other. Other pictures showed things that could be seen two different ways.
And that was it. It had been full of people, but it had still worked out to take our pictures. The line was still as long as when we'd arrived. And it was still raining. We walked all the way back to the subway and rode it home.
It was just after 5 pm, when we got home, so Randy and the kids went downstairs to play, while I chose to stay upstairs, but I was too tired to work. They returned upstairs at 6:15, and then I went to the kitchen to start making their dinner.
