Harry + Cherries

Our family friend is a librarian (or, as I called her growing up, "library mom"), and she told me about a traveling library exhibit on Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine currently visiting Philadelphia. Today Ben and I finally got to go up to see it, and it was great. Among other things, I learned that Nicolas Flamel was a real alchemist rumored to have discovered a way to make himself immortal, and a whole lot about mandrakes. Also, it was housed at the Temple Medical School library, which was the fanciest library I've been in - it had one of those water fountain walls, and giant glass cell sculpture things hanging from the ceiling.

Learning things!

After we left Temple we walked up to the Schuylkill river and along its bank, since it's cherry blossom weekend and everything is blooming and beautiful (including, unfortunately, these trees too).

Ben is amazed by the beauty of nature.

Yay, spring!