M.C. Escher Exhibit, Bookstore and a Visit to Sweet Lola's Cupcakery!

Since it's spring break here for the area public schools and Ethan (a teacher at our local high school) has off we took advantage of some of our free time together and planned a little day trip to visit an area art museum that currently is showing the work of one of my favorite artists, M.C. Escher. I wasn't able to take photos within the exhibit itself, but was able to snap these in the entryway before entering.

It was fascinating being able to see some of his actual woodcut blocks and then the prints that he made with them. So much detailed work.

I was able to take some pictures around the rest of the museum...this was a fun optical illusion. It was a three dimensional painting that was protruding outwards from the wall in the kids room. Fun!

After leaving the museum we decided to walk around downtown a bit and made a visit to our favorite cupcake bakery!

Zoey had a mint chocolate cupcake and I had a huge slice of banana cream gluten free pie! Yum!

And where does a librarian and her husband, (who happens to be the high school librarian) and their daughter go for fun? The book store of course! :) We all enjoyed some quiet time perusing our favorite genres for a bit. Zoey found some fun books in the science section that she has added on her ever growing wish list for her birthday.

Overall, a fun day out with the family. It's nice to get out of town a bit here and there when we can.

A Visit to the Zoo!

Our official "summer" is winding down here, it's been a busy one! Z and I were able to carve a bit of time out last week to visit our local zoo. We are lucky to have this so close to home. It's sometimes easy to forget about it and not take the time to make a point to stop. I'm glad that we did, there were several more additions in the way of animals and a whole other part to the zoo that we had yet to see, which made it all the more fun!

I'm glad that I have a kiddo that isn't "too old" for things like visits to the zoo! 

It was such a great afternoon...time well spent!

UW Madison - Geology Museum

Another stop during spring break for us was a visit to the UW Madison Geology Museum, this was a free museum and one that we weren't aware of until doing a bit of searching online. I'm so glad that we discovered it! Zoey didn't want to leave!! She LOVES anything and everything "science" related and was totally in her element while here.

Since this was on the UW campus we walked Zoey around the campus so she could see more of the buildings and get a view of the capitol building as well. We did walk down and did a bit of shopping on State Street as well which was a fun way to end our day of learning.