Thursday I took a half day off of work for a trip down to the Franklin Institute to see the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit. Being the Star Wars fan that I am, it’s probably surprising that I haven’t seen a lot of the original props before, but I’ve never really gotten the opportunity until now – so this exhibit was really exciting to me, there were several *squee* moments. Perhaps the best was getting to see an original R2D2 costume, and an original Leia dress:
Michael also snapped a photo if me standing on the steps in front of the institute, which they had decorated for the exhibit – way cool!
While we were downtown we also got to go to Eulogy Belgian Tavern in Old City. The beer was great, the bartender was great, the burgers were great, the fries left a bit to be desired, but in all a nice outing. One more Philly Belgian Beer bar down, how many to go? We also wandered around Penn’s Landing a bit, which was chilly but fun.
Last week I also decided to take a trip. One of my closest friends moved out to San Francisco to work for Google about a year ago and although we’ve kept in touch online I haven’t seen him since he left. So I’m flying out there for a long weekend in mid May, flying out from Philadelphia Thursday the 15th, spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday there before flying back on Monday. Aside from the chance to check out Google (cool!) we’re planning on doing one of the Napa Valley shuttle tours, which I’ve wanted to do since a couple of beer friends described how much fun they had when they went on one. So wow, SF! Should be fun, I’ve never been to California. I won’t really have time for visiting while I’m out there, but I hope this won’t be the only time I come out there.
I’ve started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the recommendation of a couple of friends. I never gave the show I real chance (saw a couple episodes here and there, wrote it off), but based on their recommendation I borrowed Nita’s DVDs and over the past week made my way through seasons 1 and 2. I’m really enjoying it! Thanks Aidy and Wiggy. I pretty much spent this entire weekend watching Buffy and goofing off in IRC and on email, which makes me feel really really lazy, but I think I needed a weekend of staying in and vegging out. I did manage to leave the house for a bit on Saturday and take a walk on the Schuylkill River Trail that runs behind Nita’s house.
Monday, Apr 14th, 2008 at 11:16
So lucky you are to have the possibility to see this exhibition… I’m living in France, at Paris… I’m really fan of princess leia too :-))
And you must enjoy Buffy. Another strong pretty heroine :))
Marie
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 1:38
So apparently there’s more then one Star Wars exibition moving around on this planet. The final two weeks of the Exibition (http://www.starwars-theexhibition.com/) here in Brussels have started. I was kind of surprised to see that there are more of these initiatives, simply because you’d expect most of the original props and costumes to be at one of them at the time (I guess we mostly got Amidala’s costumes instead of Princess Leia’s). But, eventhough I can’t really find any proof on their website, I presumed the R2D2 ‘costume’ on display on the Brussels exibition was also the original.
And the reason why I’m finally leaving a comment: as to be expected, the beer prices of the Belgian tavern are expensive. Which makes me appreciate that a Gueuze bought locally will only cost me $1 :)