Girls Architecture Day

I picked up Little Saturday afternoon and headed to the MIT Museum (which I didn’t know existed!). I found an event posting for MIT Museum’s Girls Architecture Day and though it would be perfect.

During the drive to the museum, I was telling L all about Bootsie, because my parents were out-of-town and I was dog sitting (for too brief a time). I tell her that Bootsie is very shy and sweet. “At night, I leave a light on low somewhere because she’s afraid of the dark”

Her response from the backseat was “Same.” And it made me smile.

Little is into science and math and I’m not, which makes us a good match (seriously!). I feel compelled to expose her to sciency math stuff, which gets me learning new things, and I’m into creative stuff which gets her exposed to other topics. So it’s nice that we are likely to enjoy doing things that include any of those subjects.

The Girls Architecture Day was so well-organized and a blast to attend. The museum is cool in itself, but the event had students from MIT and area architects at no less than fifteen different activity tables.

We ended our outing with a treat at Flour.

Making a concrete piece of artwork, complete with string to hang it.

Checking out a thesis project (which ended up being about war so I casually said “Let’s see what else we can find!”

Building a marshmallow structure. All of the marshmallows and sticks were being reused, so it was a comically sticky activity

Glueing tiny people to a building model. I don’t know why.

Contour drawing (drawing your subject while only looking at the subject and not the paper)

Taking a virtual tour of a theater

Deciding what to add to her learning space. She designed a tree house with a reading and math area

Flour!

This cookie was AMAZING