Can you blame us, really for not noticing the meter, what with children needing coats, snacks, faces wiped, potty visits, finding the shoes they weren’t supposed to take off in the car, losing the lid to the water bottle and THIS awesome mural.
Would it be naughty or rude of me to suggest that perhaps the mural was better than the museum? I guess that wouldn’t be entirely true. The Oregon exhibit was cool- pioneer stuff and Oregon history. One of the downstairs rooms was horribly boring, the paintings looked dusty and old and boring, like maybe they’re from Goodwill or something. The frames looked old-fashioned, like stuff I’d find in my Grandma’s old house. I liked the baskets, but I’m a dork like that. Brandon liked the Navy stuff. There was a “shoes” thing where we saw some Chinese Women’s shoes that were 4 inches long. My daughter was horrified when she learned of the old foot binding process, and made sure I knew that we really needed to look into adopting Chinese orphans.
Because bringing 6 little girls to a museum is simply not enough???
June 6, 2008
Oregon History Museum. OOPS- free parking!
Save the Animals
My M1 donated some of her Christams money lastyear to PETA. It was that commercial with the Sara McLaughlin song in the background. Dad & Vickie sent her and E1 a $50 VISA card for a Christmas present, and she decided to use some of it as a donation. Ironically, I remember my Dad grumbling through the grocery store when I was a kid “A whole friggin’ aisle of goddamm dog food. They eat garbage. Goddamn kids starving in Africa and here we are with a whole goddamm tenth of the A&P dedicated to somebody’s frigging slobbery hairy mutt.” So here’s my daughter spending his gift money on a PETA donation. When he reads this he will vomit (Sorry, Daddy)
Anyhow- she ended up on a mailing list and every week she gets some dire message from PETA about animal experimentation and other atrocities. They always urge her to send letters to congressmen and things like that. Well, today she received yet another set of free address labels. What is it with free address labels? Anyhow- she wrote them a letter. I could describe it but I’ll just paste it here. If you can’t read it here I think you can just click on it to make it more readable. It’s cute. Enjoy. 
