Saturday, March 24, 2007

Our Day with Dad


We wanted to plan something special for our time with my Dad, or Neil, when we were in town. So instead of our typical lunch and a movie, Erin and I decided to take him to see "Wolf to Woof: The Story of Dogs" at the Florida International Musuem. Sadly, they've moved out of their beautiful space where you might have seen the JFK or Russian czars exhibit. They are now in what looks like the basement of the SPJC.
The exhibit is really nice in the space they do have and details nicely the similarities between dogs and wolves. Some of the neat myths they debunk are that dogs are colorblind (they see muted colors), that purebreeds are superior dogs and that it's not unusual for dogs to save families in danger because they consider us part of their "pack."
We also found time to pose with big dog ears which gave us some idea of what it'd be like to be a human with really big fake dog ears on our head.
After the exhibit and the purchasing of souvenirs, we had a great lunch at Lucky Dill Deli, our rehearsal dinner location, and I partook of the matzoh ball soup. Erin and I were surprised that less than a year after we married the owners decided to sell the place. We're not sure if they ever did another special event after ours, but I'm going to assume we were just special and leave it at that.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad you enjoyed "Wolf to Woof" -- so did we. Parker was a little unnerved by the taxidermied wolves, though. Got a few cute pics (that I'll try to remember to send).