Mama's work, coffee, and Warhol

Today we finally had a chance to visit Mom's office and classroom, and wander around the campus a bit, and along the way drink coffee at the local coffee place and take in a really cool exhibit at the (affiliated but not-so-local) art museum.



The kids had fun running around campus and seeing the various buildings where I drink coffee and talk endlessly about my favorite dead people, for which I get paid pretty well, when you stop to think about it. We met one of my students, and had a good talk with Grace about what it means to go to college and what we'll do to help her choose one and what it's like to live on a campus.




The art exibit (which, see more here: http://www.luc.edu/luma/exhibitions.html#warhol) was really amazing - who knew that Andy Warhol was channeling his inner three-year-old? The installation consists of big rectangular mylar balloons, which float around in an otherwise empty room and which you can bat and play with and, we were told, cannot stomp on or jump on. Peter was wild about it, and kept his behavior just this side of gentle. He's never had so much fun at a museum, and I recommend it highly. Grace loved the installation and was very interested in the other exhibits at the museum. The photo exhibit in the next room includes lots of black and white photos of Warhol putting the whole thing together and some odds and ends of memorabilia from the original installation. There are also some of Warhol's prints of pop-culture images, in some cases covered in glitter, which also are very appealing to the small set. Although I'd originally assumed it was on the same campus as my classes, it's actually downtown, but it made for a fun day with lots of stops. Through the course of the day Peter had much more than his share of sugar and crashed in the car on the way home.