In addition to a visit with the world traveler, seeing the cousin who has been halfway around the planet and back again there was another reason to go to the city. I also went up to Decatur yesterday, so I could spend today with the daughter who is having a birthday: tomorrow. It has been in the works for a while, since we looked at the calendar and realized we both had to work on the 21st. She had to decide: name your amusement, and we will go, spend the day together doing the 'whatever' of your choosing.
We went to Cartersville to the Tellus science museum. It sits right there adjacent to the interstate when you drive from Atlanta to Chattanooga, so I see it every month when I make a run to TN to visit. And each time I pass by, think to myself: hmmm - we should go there. So that was my proposal, just a suggestion, that was taken, along with asking the TN people to meet for an afternoon of roaming the museum and a meal together. In the wandering about, through the part of the facility that houses a huge collection of gemstones, minerals, rocks, meteorites, history of mining, we discovered that 'tellus' is a word historically applied to mean 'mother earth', or maybe it was 'earth mother'? from mythology... I don't recall the details.
A wealth of information about geology, as well as planet history, with a lot of dinosaur replicas, explanations of reptile and mammalian evolution - overall an informative day. The sort of trip, exposing brains to the kind of things that would mostly go over the heads of your average school field trip participant, who would primarily be interested in being out of the classroom for the day, with no desire to experience anything even remotely educational.
It was a pretty, remarkably warm, pleasant day, between the last polar vortex and the next one that is bearing down on us as we sit and placidly wait for our toes to freeze. Clear and bright, a joy to be out in the world. And I enjoyed spending it with both of my favorite people. Happy Birthday tomorrow!
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