Today, we visited the Minnesota Science Museum in St. Paul. I liked their "Playing with Time" exhibit, as did my 11-year-old son. At one of the "stations," he made funny faces--rolling his eyes, making 'horse lips'--in front of a video camera. Then he could watch it played back in slow motion--a hilarious effect. At another station, you could run your finger over a touch screen, "painting" a summer landscape into a winter or fall one, or slowly transforming a six-year-old boy into an 18-year-old man. Most of the exhibits were of the type you'd expect to find in such a place--dinosaur skeletons, a laser show about a girl growing up to be an astronaut--but there were some odder things, like an old tugboat on the roof of the museum (huh?) that you could walk through, and a lecture/slide show about the human brain. The latter included some rather nauseating pictures of an actual brain surgery. It also included a computergraphic of a corpse that had been sliced up, in thin slices, from feet to head, so you could see all the internal organs built up, slice by slice. Quite interesting, though it reminded me of thin slices of steak you'd see at your local supermarket. We had lunch in the museum restaurant, which overlooked the frozen Mississippi.

Other than that, lots of visiting with relatives. The wedding is tomorrow, and we head back home on Monday.