I arrived in Boston yesterday, so there isn't much to tell. It was a day of last-minute packing, of waiting, and of flying in airplanes.
Today- while I wasn't reading The Tension of Opposites (by Kristina McBride) eagerly, which I did whenever I had a chance- my mom and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
The first exhibit we saw was a display called Minerals, Gems, and Meteorites. The minerals and gems were beautiful and very intricate. Below is a picture of one of my favorites, called Calcite, from England.
Next, we went to the Glass Flowers exhibit, which has thousands of models of plant life, all made from glass! The first picture below is a model of a plant that I thought to look especially life-like, and the second pictures depicts one of the many rows of models that were in the exhibit.
After that, I went to some interesting exhibits on evolution, one about color, and another about arthropods.
Then, we left the museum, got a bite to eat at Au Bon Pain, and endured the cold winds outside for the shortest amount of time possible and took a taxi back to our hotel. Eventually, we met up with my dad, who had been volunteering at my brother's college in the meantime, and he took us to meet up with my brother.
We had dinner there, watched a Fire Arts demonstration performed by some students at the college (in which they twirled around poles, hoops, and chains that were aflame, which looked spectacular), and then we went to my brother's dorm room.
Sadly, though, we had to leave, and we headed off back to our hotel and got a good night's sleep, ready for the next day's adventures. :)
-Cora
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