Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Art appreciation, Dempsey style

Dempsey, Bailey, Doreen, and I arrived in Ohio last night around midnight, after about 15 hours on the road. We made pretty good time, driving straight through and skipping most of the myriad tourist attractions of America's heartland: the Astronaut Deke Slayton and Bicycle Museum, the Ho Chunk Casino, the "largest Illinois State Park in Northern Illinois," and Michael Jackson's boyhood home.

We did make a couple of quick stops, though. For lunch, we stopped at one of our favorite fried chicken QSRs, Pollo Campero, where Dempsey did some training and posed for pictures.




We also stopped in Toledo to visit the beautiful Glass Pavillion at the Toledo Museum of Art. Dempsey tuned out Paul's architecture lesson, and he bolted after some leaves when we tried to make him watch the glassblowers at work.


Dempsey did have fun pretending he was in Paris, though.



Dempsey again tuned out my lecture on Guimard, but he said art nouveau curves make lovely headrests. Not exactly what I had in mind for "art appreciation," but I guess it's a start.





1 comment:

  1. Wow. Bicycle museum? Bet that was neat.
    Good lookin' headrest there!
    Fun trip!
    Sierra Rose

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