Monthly Archives: May 2007

Purging

Posted by on 7 May 2007 No comments
With all the wedding and honeymoon pictures and ongoing work to build the albums, we both have started re-evaluating our own photo collections. Hoyt rid himself of nearly an entire box of photographs. My collection being a little smaller but filled with terrible photographs, took me only an hour to relieve myself of nearly a third of them. It felt so good to remove photos of my ex, which I just ignored until yesterday. I feel so much better. And I just noticed he has not only stopped communicating with me (we dated for six years) despite my trying to make peace, but he has removed me as a friend from facebook. He was the one who said we could still be friends. How ironic.

Does anyone know why apples make me burp?

Dead Sea Scrolls

Posted by on 3 May 2007 No comments
On Sunday (yeah, I'm behind), we went to see the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit. I was surprised that it was sold out all the way until 6:30 p.m., so we putzed around for a loooong time. Over at the Crown Plaza, I picked up some new shirts then we ate at Milano in its glass extension. I saw an ad for Mysteries of the Nile, also playing at the Union Station, so we went to see that as well. The theatre at Union Station is just over five stories tall, which made it fun. Hard to fit a four month journey along the Nile into forty five minutes though.

The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit was fairly nice. Hoyt was expecting whole scrolls (or at least one scroll mostly pieced together), but instead the actual scroll segments were quite small and were fewer than a dozen. The exhibit had a lot of material leading up to it though, that really helped to explain the context and importance of the scrolls. We were giving audio devices that resembled a phone for the “audio tour”. Type in the number next to the display to hear additional content to the text. Despite being cold (the exhibit needed to be kept quite chilled), I think it was worth the twenty dollars a person to “experience” the scrolls in person.

It was a fun and full day, but very expensive. :-p