Rain and Monet

14, April 2006
Friday 9:27 pacific/ 12:27 p.m./a.m

All ya’ll are probably gloating right now, sitting in front of the screen in a tank top, cut-offs, and flip-flops. I’m sitting here in a long sleeve shirt and jeans. It is cold, cloudy, wet, and rainy here. It started to pour wet stuff this morning. We were going to go to the beach but we quickly changed plans. Since it was pouring we decided to go with plan B. The Ellis family almost always has two different ways to spend the day and if the one we chose doesn’t work out, we go with the other one.
Since it was Good Friday, all the Easter events had started at the campground. We went to the campground clubhouse where there were Easter crafts you could buy for a buck. My mom only gave me two dollars so I bought a craft for Katty and Tatum. Darby helped Katty her craft, which was a bunny puppet. It turned out to be a little difficult so Darby took it and my mom, after running back to get more $, bought Katty another craft. Tatum, being who she is, chose one of the hardest projects on the table. My mom instructed me to help her. It was a necklace that had candy beads, which you threaded into the shape of an egg. My form of helping is doing it myself. I took the project out of her hands while she watched. Hey, I’m a firstborn, gimme a break. Seeing that Tatum was bored beyond belief, my mom bought me the same craft and helped Tatum. My necklace turned out better.
Noting that the rain wasn’t going to let up any time soon, we went back to the RV and watched a movie until it was time to pick my dad up from work. We picked him up and headed to the J. Paul Getty Museum. We had too do school on the way. Tatum, who was doing a states and capitals of the USA sheet, which she hates, had fallen asleep in the back seat with the pencil still in her hand. She woke up shortly before we stopped at Burger King for food. Funny how that works.
We have been to the Getty twice before and have never managed to see all the buildings. We saw all sorts of stuff. They had a special section on Degas. We saw originals of Da Vinci, Monet, Van Gough, Rembrandt, and so many others that I can’t remember. They had a special section with Renaissance furniture with beds as big as your bedroom, I’m not kidding. I got in trouble once for getting to close to a Monet picture. It was really cool.
After leaving we were all super hyper walking to the car. I always am after two hours in a museum and an hour in a gift shop. Now, Darby and Tatum are asleep while we are driving back to the campground. It’s still raining.

CUL8r,
Morgan