Storm that wasn’t

At least in our area, the storm was relatively benign. Sure, there was plenty of gusty wind but not enough to cause damage. There was also plenty of rain but it came along in showers that usually didn’t last too long. There was even a bit of thunder and lightning…for about two or three minutes. It definitely wasn’t the big storm we expected but it did bring plenty of rain and cooler weather that is more typical of this time of the year. Further south they fared considerably worse but it seems we were on the edge of the system and missed out the worst. That’s one good thing about where we live though. When we had the big hailstorm in March about three or four years ago, our area missed out completely, aside from a massive downpour and a whole lot of noise from the clouds above…even that didn’t last all that long. We’re still getting showers after a few days and possibly will have more tomorrow but it looks like the sun will be back by Sunday.

Today I took Lego Lover to see the New York photo exhibit that’s running here from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I would have liked to wait until next week as he’s not totally recovered from the virus that started with a sore throat but the exhibition closes on Sunday and a weekend visit wouldn’t have gone well with all the last minute crowds going. He wasn’t keen to go but this was part of his “school” program and we compromised on our travel by taking a train into the city from a not-too-distant suburb (closest station to us)…Anyway, we arrived and he first got to have a look at all the construction going on near the city train station for a couple of minutes. We moved on to the art gallery and had our visit. It took far less time to look at everything in this exhibit. I don’t know if it was smaller or if we just didn’t spend as much time looking at the photos. Lego Lover didn’t like much of it although he did like one that showed double decker buses in the 1950s, I think. To be honest, I didn’t find this one nearly as good as the last one. Even though I didn’t like a lot of the Modern Masters series, it was more interesting to me overall. Afterwards we went to look at the grade 12 student exhibition in the next gallery. We didn’t linger at that for long as Lego Lover was wanting to go but I thought there were some very interesting pieces and it was amazing to think these are high school students’ work. Next month a new exhibit from MoMA comes out called Van Gogh, Dali and Beyond: The World Reimagined which I plan to visit with Lego Lover and the Scientist. Hopefully we can find a weekend when it’s not too terribly crowded. There is also a new exhibit at the nearby WA Museum which is about Ancient Egypt and includes two mummies that we plan to see after it begins later this month.

After we left the museum we had lunch in the city and wandered around the city for a little while before we came back on the train. We must have left around 4pm and the train wasn’t nearly as crowded as I’d have expected.

I was quite glad to get home because I’d suddenly gotten very itchy while at the art gallery. It started mostly to the side of my belly button and was bad enough that the skin got red and blotchy and it looked like I’d broken the skin with the scratching…not sure if that really happened as it seemed to show up rather soon after I was aware of the itchiness or maybe it just looked like it. I’ve been finding myself itchy all over my body  since, although thankfully not all at the same time. I’m wondering about the cause of this and I wonder if I got something irritating onto my skin somehow or had some sort of insect bite…or maybe there’s something else. Hopefully it will be better in the morning.