Dino-mite

Things are starting to equalize here, and I have committed to showing the kids (and myself) something new every day, if the weather cooperates. So Today we visited the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Science, which, like most things in Cambridge, is a short walk from our house. The museum, which is all about fossils happened to be precisely what we needed after power-watching Bob the Builder's Big Dino Dig during one particularly rainy afternoon. The museum is small, just right for little people, and has a slew of interactive puzzles and things to look at and touch. The above photo shows Charlotte growling at one particularly menacing dinosaur.

We enjoyed a little lunch al fresco (Harry insisted he needed a sandwich in EAT, but really, what he wanted was a cookie -already manipulating me, learned it from his sister), stumbled on a memorial in the center of Christ's

Pieces for Lady Di, and unwittingly participated in a teacher labor protest (the most benign collection of picketers I've ever seen, quiet as mice, just strolling down the street en mass).

The highlight of our walk home was taking in the busker competitors that today lined the city streets. The best was surely "The Binman," who played indi rock tunes from inside a trash bin; nothing but his hand and the guitar fret was visible. We were all captivated. Binman, you are stupendous!