MLK Day

Well, today is a day off for everyone in our house. We are planning to go out to lunch (we rarely eat out as a family) and then hit the Mystic Aquarium (which may be mobbed because of MLK day).

Yesterday, I spent the entire day (at least 5 hours of it) at Artrageous! a fund raiser for the Children's Museum of SE Connecticut. It was held at Sonalysist Studios (which is a movie studio) and Ahren was performing some of the scenes that she did in the play Once on this Island, Jr. last summer. Many of the cast all came to perform the opening and closing scenes (which were dancing and singing numbers). Because Ahren was one of the Storytellers (2 of the 4 were able to attend yesterday), she actually had a lot of lines and spoken parts. They really did a good job and the theater group, The Secryt got some good publicity. The coolest thing of the whole day was seeing these incredible table scapes that were all designed around different children's books - it was amazing! On Saturday they had a fairy tale ball that was a very formal event and very extravagant ($150/plate). The event that we attended was the day after the ball but they kept all the table set up and then added 'booths' around the perimeter, with all sorts of activities for kids - cookie decorating, face painting, painting glass stones, planting marigold seeds, storytelling, etc. Ahren's group did 3 performances throughout the afternoon to entertain the crowds. Considering they hadn't done any of the show since July, it was pretty good.

In other news, I've decided to keep track of the movies that I watch and books that I read for 2007, I'm going to keep the running list on my backup blog, and you can see it here. On WordPress I can make 'pages' not just 'posts', which keeps the content more static, so I'm going to try using that for these tracking sort of pages.

Sam asked if I'm planning to do the worm thing again and I think I will, but I think I will have to wait until the spring because most places won't ship worms during the winter due to the chance of them freezing. (We are still waiting for Sean's ants to be delivered and they were ordered in November!) I'm a little nervous because I don't know why they all died and if was something that I did, but they were thriving for a good long time, so I don't think it was anything that I did.