PDX Pix - April 2013

Let's keep it moving and go onto April.  Happy Birthday, Kate!

The house, with things starting to become green again in the background.

We went to OMSI, the local science museum, to see the Mythbusters exhibit.  They had a lot of interactive pieces where you could try something that was done on the show.  Here Kate shows off her cat-like reflexes in the "Dodge A Bullet" test setup.

And here she proves that the phone book swing is strong enough to hold her and baby Noah.

Random display in the museum.  Thought it was kind of funny.

So, my distinguished uncle has spent a lot of this year and before putting together an important Manet exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art.  Later, I found out that Fathom Events (the group that does live theater broadcasts of things like the opera, concerts, etc.) had a one-day only showing of this exhibit as part of their "Exhibition" series.  Anyways, it was very cool to see the exhibit on the big screen, and to also see my uncle talk about this amazing painter in the film too!  Neat stuff.  Congrats, LWN!

Saw a fantastic, one-time-only show with Booker T Jones and Charlie Hunter as part of the Portland "Soul'd Out Music Festival."  Fabulous interplay between these two greats, and it was amusing to see Charlie Hunter essentially play as a backup musician.

The pink explosion tree!

Found this book at a library sale.  It's pretty hilarious.  Potters - it's headed your way next.

We'd volunteered to help run the DASH puzzle hunt in Portland later in May, but there was a lot of prep work to be done.  Here's an example of one of the puzzles.  (We didn't create the puzzles, just organized the Portland iteration of the event, dealing with logistics and day-of running).

And here is our band of playtesters doing a dry-run of the puzzlehunt.  Good thing we did that too, as it ran very long and had to be pared down a bit.  Of course we had gorgeous weather for  the playtest in April, and then drizzle/rain for the actual day in May...

Poor Banjo came down with some type of allergies/respiratory issue that kept him down and out for a while.  Several vet visits later we are still without a clear "cure" and he still sneezes/coughs a lot, but is now on Flonase and is generally back to his old self.  For a few weeks though this is pretty much all he wanted to do, other than sneeze and hack up lungs.   

 Kate and Cara did a self-guided painting class!  Here are the results.

Kate's teacher friend Ann, who just had her baby (Mark) a couple weeks ago, showing off the latest in dad-oriented infant wear.