Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Right after we got home from Thanksgiving

Yes, I've been away a while. And this feels like old news since the Christmas decorations went up. But still, it's pretty cool and worth telling!

The first day we were home from Thanksgiving (Sunday), we went to the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu. Eric & Katie's Indian Princess tribe was having their meeting there. We got there and had a yummy lunch, then E & K went to meet with the tribe. While they were doing official tribe business, J & N and I walked around a bit.


It is a museum dedicated to Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art. The building is a replica of a Pompeiian villa. It is very unique and pretty!

We (and the other spouses and siblings) met up with the tribe after a little while in the Family Forum, which is an exploratory room with lots of activities about Greek vases. Then we picked up the cards that lead you on a treasure hunt of sorts, and the whole tribe/families set out to explore and find the "clues."

Then Nick and Julianna got antsy, so we went back to the Family Forum. They had a very loooooong attention span for one particular activity: drawing on vases. Greek vases have stories on them, and the kids get to decorate the vases with dry erase markers, wipe off, draw/write a new one, over and over!


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