We have traveled to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science we can't even count. With a 4 day weekend right before our annual membership expired, we headed down for another trip. Other than finding a fake anaconda added to one of the exhibits, we felt like we had seen it all. So at lunch time we headed to the nearest Good Times drive through and went over to the Denver Art Museum to see the traveling Star Wars and the Power of Costume exhibit. It did not disappoint!
It was pretty exciting to see the real costumes but I thought all the little details about costume inspiration was even more interesting. Examples include Han Solo coming from the Old West gunslinger days, the Empire's coming from Nazi uniforms, Darth Vader being based on Samurai.
After showing Hubby some of the places we enjoyed on our last visit, the children got to practice making their own costumes before heading home.
One thing about long weekends is we just get to have fun. M also had her first cookie booth of the season. I was so proud of her for staying an extra hour when the mother and daughter that was to replace us did not come. We sold a lot of cookies in that extra hour so she really helped our troop out!
On Sunday -- and against our children's wishes because they were sick of church -- we attended the open house put on at our friend's Islamic community center. I loved seeing hundreds of shoes outside in support of these good people. The food was great and the kids ended up loving the playground and took a little convincing to leave.
Monday's plans to go swimming with the P. family and go to the park with church friends were given up when we realized N probably had an ear infection and I took her to the doctor instead. She sure did and is on antibiotics now. The doc was also nice enough to take a quick peek at D's injured toe (pillow fights are bad for toes in our family) and determined his wasn't infected but could easily become so and gave us instructions to avoid it. We ended up having impromptu play dates later in the day which made the long weekend feel complete. Having extra time with my children was great -- I do miss them when they are at school. I am going to be beside myself when N reaches 1st grade!
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