Visitors!

We had friends visiting last weekend, Ben's parents this weekend, my parents next weekend, and more friends the weekend after that - whew! So we have been eating at a lot of restaurants and going to a lot of museums, but the only interesting photograph to come out of any of it is this:

That is us with our friends from college, inside some of the Art that adorns Penn's campus. Don't ask my why a giant broken button is Art.

(Actually, this wasn't my first encounter with the principal that oversized household objects are Art:)

At the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2006

In the completely opposite direction, yesterday we went to the Mütter Museum, a museum of medical history and anatomical oddities that I have vaguely traumatic memories of visiting as a child. In addition to all the preserved fetuses of conjoined twins, midget skeletons, and photos of truly horrifying skin conditions, there was also the Chevalier Jacskson Collection of Swallowed Objects and a Giant Colon, that contained forty pounds of feces when its owner finally died (after not pooping for months). Very disturbing.

Lastly, our college friends took a picture of us on our balcony, and since we don't usually take pictures of ourselves in our (sort of) new house I thought I'd share it:

Everyone is happy because their colons are functioning correctly.

Fun times accomplished!