Day 185: A grand day out

We were all quite exhausted today after a week of camp (for the girls) and house-sorting for Exile #2, E5N1 and me. We had two choices, one was a lazy day at home, probably lacking in inspiration and the other was to have an outing. Exile #2 recalled that we had a family pass to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art that we had won in a charity auction at school, so we decided to go. The museum is in Massachusetts, nearly two hours drive away, that way the girls would have a physical rest and hopefully some nice family time without us having to be especially inspired.

We had a great visit. Exile #3 and Exile #4 enjoyed the galleries of art, a series of films of Eric Carle stories, doing an art project involving maps (Exile #3 drew one and Exile #4 decorated one) and story time in the library. E5N1 had a slightly grouchy day by his standards, but we're still not about to complain.

I took some pictures of the art session and the girls with a VW Beetle painted as the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Unfortunately, although the artwork made it home with us, the camera did not. The first casualty of my striving to bring you pictures of our life in exile. Something to worry about tomorrow I think.

This picture is from Day 176 - but I couldn't include it then, so there's a silver lining of sorts.