It’s a good thing that we have two days to make the trip to
Delaware because we are not making good time for many reasons. We left at 8:30am this morning and I caused some delay by needing to have a meet and greet with my doctor in Mt. Pleasant that took a while.
We then made it to Ann Arbor where we decided we would sit down to have lunch at Olga’s Kitchen simply because the lemonade is divine. (the rest of the food is pretty good too).
I talked up the Toledo Art Museum because Dr. LaFleur said that it was his favorite and we had to go. So, we found out that it was free, open for a couple of hours and decided to “scope it out” for a couple of hours.
things to us. This time, we actually had our camera, which appears to be working even after it got soaking wet after Jo put ice near it in the trunk to keep some cheese cool. John found that the best way to capture the Rothko on display was on the floor and he did a pretty good job with it. We did not have the same wow and
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| Rothko from the floor |
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| Classical courtyard |
We then made it to Ann Arbor where we decided we would sit down to have lunch at Olga’s Kitchen simply because the lemonade is divine. (the rest of the food is pretty good too).
I talked up the Toledo Art Museum because Dr. LaFleur said that it was his favorite and we had to go. So, we found out that it was free, open for a couple of hours and decided to “scope it out” for a couple of hours.
We were ready to be amazed like we were in Indianapolis and we had the art historian with us to explain
things to us. This time, we actually had our camera, which appears to be working even after it got soaking wet after Jo put ice near it in the trunk to keep some cheese cool. John found that the best way to capture the Rothko on display was on the floor and he did a pretty good job with it. We did not have the same wow and 
amazement that we had in Indianapolis because as Rachel pointed out, we
were ready for it this time, but this museum also did a fabulous job laying out
rooms to give a feel to the art that made you eager to see it. Coming in to the classical courtyard made you
feel like you had stepped into the Italian sunshine to look at the ruins. The mosaic in the middle with the sun shining
on it, the absence of color except for near the skylight, the beautiful theater
that was right off of it just made a feast of images. They had a mummified cat, lots of Egyptian
sculptures, funerary monuments, and the Greek version of the Stanley Cup (or so
we told John to get him excited). Rachel
said that Panathenaic Amphorae full of olive oil would have been awarded to the
champion of the games that were held in honor of Athena every 4 years in
Athens. So, this was definitely a good
start to this museum.
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