Today, the Pandas toured Minneapolis! It was very exciting. First we went to the Walker Arts Center to see an exhibit by Richard Price. It was excellent, though I was very thankful for my handy-dandy art-history-grad-student sister to explain just what "appropriation" meant ("So he was literally just...taking pictures...of someone else's pictures?" "Yes, that's it exactly"). We also spent a fair amount of time trying to converse with a "Dolphin Oracle." It went something like this:
US: hi
(extended pause)
DOLPHIN ORACLE: tell me more about your mystery
(after some thought)
US: what is beauty?
(extended pause)
DOLPHIN ORACLE: you are beautiful
Then we gave up.
We were extremely thankful that the hostel we are staying in, (a beautiful old mansion that is now converted to an international hostel) was near to the Walker Arts Center, because unfortunately the Pandas' pedal-pumpers were too tired to push properly today. (In case you are wondering, Liz thought of this "tongue twister" on the road. And we are huge dorks and appreciate things like making up tongue twisters while riding. As well as finding huge panda statues.)
From the Walker Arts Center, Cate and I suggested we would like to go shopping, so Liz google-mapped the nearest Urban Outfitters to us on her blackberry, and as it turns out, this was exactly the right thing to do. It brought us to the happening neighborhood of Hennepin, where we shopped a little (it's not exactly easy to go shopping when you know you have to carry everything you want to buy with you on your bike, but our stained athletic clothing no longer felt appropriate today somehow), then we went to see War, Inc. at the local Indie film theater, and then we had dinner and walked back to the hostel. It was a very all-around relaxing rest day, definitely well-needed, (and hopefully well-deserved).
This is my first blog post where I haven't spent most of it talking about animals, so I will say that we are happy about a certain lack of animals. Actually, the lack of a certain animal: that pesky beast known as the mosquito. It was a very well-appreciated luxury!
Back on the road again tomorrow! Hopefully our pedal-pushers will be ready to pump by then.
-Sarah
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It looks like Claes's Mickey crash landed on the roof during a recent tornado; no wonder photos were discouraged!
Ah well.., art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
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