> > uni"hey, i'll come laugh at you as you try to see EVERY MUSEUM on the smithsonian in ONE DAY!!!"peg
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> While we're on the subject of museums - our International Club went down to New York City last March to see "Les Miserables" (pardon the lack of accent), and we had a couple days of free time (we went for the weekend). My friend Maria and I went to the Met (-roplolitan Museum of Art, for those who don't know) and spent about six hours wandering around and looking at the artwork. We saw maybe - *maybe* - one twentieth of the museum. And that's pushing it. It was an amazing place... the last time I went to the Met I was in my freshman year of high school, and basically went to get out of the day of school, so I didn't really care about it and had no appreciation for the art. That, I think, is a terrible trajedy; I wish I has paid more attention to it. I enjoyed the museum so much on my second trip...
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> I don't really know where I'm going with this. :-} Anybody else have any particular museum stories?

oh, many. considering i live in Washington DC, where there are a billion museums, i have many many museum stories. i love art museums, but not modern art ones(red square on blue just really doen't do much for me). my favorites have to be the American History Museum and the Children's Museum(how do you beat a place where they ENCOURAGE you to act like a 5-year-old?), though. I had something really big against museums for a while, just cause they're so touristy and stuff.... but then i discovered that there really are interesting exhbits and junk if you take the time to actually go to them and look, not on a field trip. i hate field trips to museums. so, um yeah.

uni"i don't know what i was saying, either"peg