ADVENTURING!

[etakyma]

Today... Today began with a Segway. Gwen and I got the groupon for the Segway tour of Cambridge a few weeks ago. We used it today. Our tour guide was cute as a button, and also kind of a geek, so we had a hugely good time with him. We were the only ones signed up for the ten o'clock tour (first tour of the day) so we made really good time, and got to do a little around and around to see some interesting sights he wouldn't be able to take a larger tour. It was really only the first few minutes we left the holding pen that were a little scary - the first downhill on the driveway of the Museum of Science was a "bunny slope" kind of real-world test. After that we had a good time. He told us about the Boston Molassacre (or the Great Molasses Flood) of 1919 that killed a bunch of people and destroyed a lot of property in the North End. We also discussed the Smoot, the weird art on the MIT campus as well as local flora and fauna.

We totally did it so we could experience the Segway as a mode of transportation.

Quidditch on Segways could be so much fun. I'm just saying.

Then we had lunch, and saw the Hayden Planetarium show "Undiscovered Planets" about XO planets. I haven't seen a Hayden Planetarium show since I was a kid, and I know they spent huge money to renovate and upgrade all their technology. It was pretty spectacular.

Then we wandered down to the West End Museum because a local woman was having a show of her art that worked through the death of her brother. The artist is the wife of someone Gwen works with, so she wanted to go and support. I tagged along, because why not, right? I liked some of it better than others. Her brother drowned in the Charles River when he was 12, and it affected each member of the family (Catholic- pretty sure Irish Catholic) in different ways. The art was interesting and of a lot of different mediums. I think her self-portrait that ended the exhibit was my favorite.

Then we went back to Gwen's and I napped in her chair for a little while before I decided to come home and get to bed early tonight. I hope to be asleep by 11pm to make up for the week of insomnia I've had.

Yeah. Segways. Awesome means of transportation. If you get the chance totally take a city tour with them. So much fun!

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Quidditch on Segways could be so much fun. I'm just saying.

Word.

Meg and I made a choice between GoCar and a Segway tour on our honeymoon on SF. We picked GoCar and it was tremendous, but some day I'd love to go back and do the Segway tour as well.

(Investigating, it's not clear whether or not Segway tours of London still exist. If they do, though...?)

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

I would be so down with a Segway tour of London....

(I've been thinking about giving myself a trip to London for my birthday. But I may not be able to do so this year, as I'm still climbing out from my 18 months of unemployment.)

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

Segways are totally so cool.

But I think it's exoplanets, not XO planets. :)