Spring Break...thank goodness it's over!

Oh, were we busy over spring break; road trip, museum visits, art projects...a filthy house. It's nice to have the kids back in school....now where IS spring??? It's kind of windy and cold outside but there were sure some nice days to remember from last week!

 

We took a trip to Wichita to hit up some museums.

 

Outside the art museum the boys struck their best "statue pose"!

 

Ah!! A Chihuly! I love his stuff!

 

After the art museum we went to Cowtown, which the boys love.

 

Cowtown is a rebuilt 1800's town with mostly original buildings. As you walk through there are reenactors and plenty of antiques on display.

 

And look at that...a honest to goodness real grain elevator.

I thought I was able to get DR away from work for a day...guess not!

 

But guess what the biggest hit was with the kids at Cowtown....a bowling alley...in an alley! Wooden pins, a canvas backstop, a rail/ramp to roll the ball back on. We could have stayed there for hours!

 

After Wichita we went up to Manhattan to the Flinthills Discovery Center that had a great display about the ecosystem of the plains.

 

 

They even had a really neat exhibit about the science and physics of football. It was really neat!

 

 

We had one gorgeous day over break where ther was no wind and it was up in the 70's so we went down to Meade State Park and enjoyed the great outdoors!

 

There aren't too many trees out here in Kansas but this is the one spot where we can enjoy them occasionally. They were still bare but they were still lovely!

 

Now we are back to the grindstone of work and school....but we are still waiting on spring!!

Harwood Museum, Art Art Art!!!!!

Taos, New Mexico has a long history of art in the area; Georgia O'Keefe, J.D. Salinger, the Taos Art Society to name a few of the big names. I was pumped  to hit some of the art venues Taos offers.

On the Saturday before Valentines Day we hit up the Harwood Art Museum in Taos and boy did my jealous bone come out!!  

Check out the art room the museum has for kids!

The museum provided supplies for the kids to make Valentines. They had construction paper, glitter, stickers, markers, scissors, ribbons, glue sticks and tons more all laid out for the little ones to create Valentines for loved ones. The boys worked for an hour and a half!  

This is a paper mache dragon made out of a tomato cage that hangs on the wall of the art room. Yip loved it and we are on the lookout for our own tomato cage (and warm weather) to make our own! Every Sunday the museum opens the art room for two hours to let the kids make anything they want. How cool is that?

I want to move to Taos now please.

The rest of the Harwood Museum was small but

with some really beautiful artwork.

Another one of those fireplaces I like so much!

This painting caught my eye; a crowd in a movie theatre watching Indians attack a stage coach.

Ah! One of my favorite western artists, Joseph Sharp.

I enjoy contemporary art too and this wood sculpture of men wrestling

 reminded me too much of Yip and Yap!

But my favorite at the Harwood, the wooden sculpture Jesus Superman.

The Harwood was nice but small but the better museum

was the Taos Art Museum we visited the next day

 ...but you'll have to wait for that fabulous museum until next week!