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State of the Jen
This morning: Quite good really. I felt like I was getting my brain back in deep ways that haven't been true since.. oh, last July? There was good music. It was a lovely sunny day out (none of this 'largely cloudy' thing the forecast was suggesting.) I had had a very nice breakfast at the B&B.
I drove up the coast of Lake Superior for a bit, pausing at Gooseberry Falls to go and admire the Upper, Middle, and Lower Falls (very lovely, and also very full at the moment.) The park is also pleasingly ADA compliant, as much as any park that involves falls (and hence vast differences in elevation) can be: there's a paved path with seats at the bends for resting, as well as stairs, that can get you to most of the particularly interesting view points.
I had lunch, and then started feeling like I'd very much overreached my stamina, so came back south rather than the theoretical plan of going up to Split Rock Lighthouse (since the lighthouse isn't open yet for the season, I would just have been standing on the beach, mostly.)
But, since it was still early in the day, I went to the Great Lakes Aquarium, instead of doing it tomorrow, and it's *lovely*. I am fond of aquaria generally, but this one is all about fresh water - mostly Lake Superior, but also various other major fresh lakes. They also have a piece of art as you enter that made me want to own a house - it's a water wall made of frosted glass with symbols from all sorts of places/cultures/traditions (including a bunch of alchemic ones, etc.) for water. Very lovely. They also have the sort of signage that Minnesota has spoiled me for - not only saying what a display is, but why it's cool, and what's unusual about it.
Am now tired and sore, but less cranky than earlier, as I have had bath in bathtub I now lust over. It's a Thermomasseur tub, and it has a couple of advantages over regular massage tubs. A major one is that it works on forced air for the jets, rather than forced water. This means you can actually put bath stuff in the water (oils, foam, salts, whatever) because it won't get in the jets. If you are like me and have long hair, it also means you have less risk of your hair getting in the jets. (The one downside, if like me you have a cat, is that it self-cleans the air jets about 20 minutes after you get out, which sounds like a washing machine going on, more or less, only with more water and less air.) But overall? Ooooh.
I drove up the coast of Lake Superior for a bit, pausing at Gooseberry Falls to go and admire the Upper, Middle, and Lower Falls (very lovely, and also very full at the moment.) The park is also pleasingly ADA compliant, as much as any park that involves falls (and hence vast differences in elevation) can be: there's a paved path with seats at the bends for resting, as well as stairs, that can get you to most of the particularly interesting view points.
I had lunch, and then started feeling like I'd very much overreached my stamina, so came back south rather than the theoretical plan of going up to Split Rock Lighthouse (since the lighthouse isn't open yet for the season, I would just have been standing on the beach, mostly.)
But, since it was still early in the day, I went to the Great Lakes Aquarium, instead of doing it tomorrow, and it's *lovely*. I am fond of aquaria generally, but this one is all about fresh water - mostly Lake Superior, but also various other major fresh lakes. They also have a piece of art as you enter that made me want to own a house - it's a water wall made of frosted glass with symbols from all sorts of places/cultures/traditions (including a bunch of alchemic ones, etc.) for water. Very lovely. They also have the sort of signage that Minnesota has spoiled me for - not only saying what a display is, but why it's cool, and what's unusual about it.
Am now tired and sore, but less cranky than earlier, as I have had bath in bathtub I now lust over. It's a Thermomasseur tub, and it has a couple of advantages over regular massage tubs. A major one is that it works on forced air for the jets, rather than forced water. This means you can actually put bath stuff in the water (oils, foam, salts, whatever) because it won't get in the jets. If you are like me and have long hair, it also means you have less risk of your hair getting in the jets. (The one downside, if like me you have a cat, is that it self-cleans the air jets about 20 minutes after you get out, which sounds like a washing machine going on, more or less, only with more water and less air.) But overall? Ooooh.
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...doesn't everybody have this? Seriously, is it better than average here?
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Both of those places are decent, but Minnesota museum signage has a real knack for going a level deeper than "Here is this cool thing."
I'd think it was a single museum, but it's really not: *every* museum I've been to here, even down to pretty small ones like the Bell at the U, or even the National Park Service thing at Gooseberry Falls today manage it.
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