Weekend Ramblings

Well, Canada Day has come and gone for another year. We went to the Body Worlds 2 Exhibit http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Their "catch phrase" for the exhibit is "the Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human bodies involving the use of plastination". It was really pretty interesting, although it was a bit too busy for my liking and I felt like I wasn’t able to linger or learn about all of the things they had available. What was most impressive to me was they had a healthy lung, a lung of a coal miner, and a lung of a smoker. Ick. Yet another reason not to smoke. I was also really moved by the prenatal section where they showed fetuses of various ages and sized. While the timing is not quite right yet for Austin and I to start a family, I hope that in the coming year or two we will be. The exhibit was very powerful, and busy.

Austin wore his Nike retro shoes he purchased last year off of EBAY. I love them. We went out to dinner after at the Old Spaghetti Factory. We ALSO steam cleaned our carpets this weekend, Saturday to be exact. I can’t begin to describe just how excited I was to steam clean the carpets. I rented the unit at the grocery store on Saturday, and we completed it after dinner Saturday night. Austin mainly did most of the work; I filled up the bucket and added the soap. Quite disgusting how much dirt was in our carpets, but I was just happy as could be. I’m not sure we will clean the carpets in this house again (and here’s hoping it sells SOONER rather than LATER), but I really would like to get into the habit of deep cleaning them more often in the new house, particularly with the cats and their hairball throw ups.

I have to go to work tomorrow, and then we have Tuesday off to celebrate the 4th of July. Austin, the lucky bastard, is off tomorrow. We are going to a party that friends of ours have, actually their parents are the one who hold the party and the kids always tag along, even 10 years later. This will be our 4th year of going and it has always been a lot of fun.

Happy 4th of July to my American friends!