Blogger has been giving me fits lately with various problems and so I've had to redo my template a couple of times - hopefully now everything will work and stay the way it's supposed to be.

Anyway, we decided to take a little "mystery trip" over Memorial Weekend. It was kind of impulsive but we felt we needed to just get away from the house and things that would call for our attention and just spend some time together as a family. We travelled 2 1/2 hrs. north to Corning NY and went to the Corning Museum of Glass. It was such a fun "field trip"! We all loved it - very "hands on" and full of fun and interesting things to learn and do.

Aurora and I tried our hands at making something out of glass. She did a sandblast vase for her teacher and I made a glass bead and gave it to her to wear as a necklace. We had so much fun. It was so fascinating learning how they make glass, how glass can break (or not), how they blow glass, shape glass, color glass....

It's definately a worthwhile excursion for the whole family (& very reasonably priced too - kids are FREE!)