MIT's Festival for Art, Science and Technology

Here are some pictures from the MIT's Festival for Art, Science and Technology. It is the grand finally of the 150th birthday of MIT. I wish I still had the map with all the names of the pieces and the artists, but I don't. So just enjoy the pictures.

The park just became a pain

The city turned the water on at the parks on Friday. That officially means that it is going to be a pain in the (wet) butt to go to the park. The girls were the first to play with/in it. In fact, in the afternoon Z stripped down naked before I had a chance to say no. One huge difference between Sweden and the States, in Sweden kids will play naked in the water until they are much older. Not here.

A normal weekend

Some would say that we plan too many things for the weekend. I am not so sure about that. In fact, I would say that we plan just the right amount of things for the weekend. Just enough to keep us busy, but leaving enough time just to enjoy the time. take this Saturday for example.

- Girls sleep in
- breakfast in bed for the girls
- I go to the store to get some stuff
- We go to the Fresh Pond Day with activities and crafts before lunch
- Come home for lunch
- Go to the Science Fair at Cambridge Library (in the pouring rain, I might add)
- Home for a nice dinner
- Back out to MIT for a special light program
- Walk home along the Charles, get home about 10.30

See, a nice relaxed day. The amazing thing though is that the kids did not kill other or we did not want to kill the kids.

Spring is in the air

It is spring in the Boston area. I would like to point this out only because they got snow yesterday in Stockholm, mwaaahahaha (evil laugh! The laugh is very important and all too often is forgotten)! Most of these were taken yesterday between our place and the neighborhood park. It really is a beautiful time right now.










Just don't ask me what they are. I know one is a crab apple tree and one is tulips. Other then that, no idea.

MIT Open House

One of the things that I love about Boston/Cambridge is that their is always something going on. I am sure that all big cities have this going for it, but Boston is excellent for that. Much more then other big cities I have been in.

Case in point, this weekend was crammed pack with things to do. Saturday was the start of Cambridge Science Week and it was also an open house at MIT to celebrate their 150 anniversary, Native American Pow Wow at Harvard, Art Day at Harvard and I am sure a whole lot more.


We decided to go to the open house at MIT (shocking, I know). It was a bit overwhelming the number of activities that they had planned. We tried to investigate before hand, but honestly, the website was crap in trying to figure out what was going on. So we just went there and found a couple of things. We all had our different favorite ones. I liked the blimp races, though I was the only one. M liked Mr. Magnet (an older guy who did magnet experiments for the younger kids. Both girls got to help out, which they were excited about). Z's was the bouncy castle and slide and N's was using the pedometer to see if she could win an ipad (we didn't, or I should say she didn't).


It was a lot of fun and it was the first time they have had an open house like this at MIT for 40 years or something, so that is cool. I would of liked to take the girls to the Pow Wow though. It took me back to my OA days and it is a very cool part of our history/culture. In fairness though, we did not know it was happening until I happen to be walking by and heard the drums. Oh yell, next time.