Maybe Not So Cultured...Yet

This weekend we drove JD to the airport in Bellingham, WA.

{JD is Mike's buddy from Ohio.  He came to visit for three weeks.}

While we were close, we took the opportunity to stay at our favourite hotel in Vancouver.

The River Rock!

Enjoying the sunset after a swim.

{okay honestly tho, they were freezing and totally not into it, I forced this picture!}

The next morning we took to the streets of Vancouver, headed for the Art Museum.

I was so excited to see the Matisse exhibit.

My family is a bit unconventional.

Ya they don't really play by the rules.

Love visiting the "big city"!

Apparently it was a bit loud for Bria!

We say "came-bee"

This street is "cam-bee".

So right off the bat, the kids notice a gigantic copy of Blue Nude.

Ya. 

I guess I didn't really think this one through.

Pretty much they were traumatized by their first sight at the museum.

Then there were the three C's.

{Caleb-Caity-Cambria}

"Quiet", "calm" and "don't touch" are not words in their vocabularies.

And we were at the art museum.

Mike spent most of the visit out front with the small fries.

But I loved the exhibit.

I was an art history minor in College and I still really enjoy it.

I can't quite put together a fancy enough sentence to express my thoughts here.

Simply?

I miss being able to look at, ponder, study and appreciate art.

I guess I thought taking the kids to see some of my favourite artist's work would inspire all of us.

The big girls did stand and ponder this one for a while.

Mikayla really liked this one.

Right about here is when a guy in a suit jacket with an earpiece came up and told me to stop taking pictures.

Awesome.

It wasn't the loud 3 year old or the boy-who-has-to-touch-everything that got us busted at the museum.

It was miss art history minor herself.

Culture fail.

For the most part anyways.

I felt a glimmer of interest from a few of the girls and I am hopeful that we still have a future in art appreciation:)