Last weekend, Max and I went to Oklahoma City for the Ray Harryhausen exhibit at the Oklahoma City Science Museum. This is the first time I’ve traveled with him alone for an extended period; at least it’s the first I remember. And it brought back memories of doing the same with my father. All those trips he and I shared, just the two of us on adventures.

This trip wasn’t so much an adventure as a pilgrimage. The weekend before — Thanksgiving — we had a Harryhausen marathon. Max and I watched many of his films before that, however. Giant crabs, bees, skeletons, monsters.

Max got very upset when, after the museum curator gave a speech and took questions, the prize of the movie poster was awarded to a young girl for the best question (Max’s question was, “How did he make the blood?”).

We went to a skeleton museum, where Max got a computer mouse embedded with a fiddler crab. We saw a building near there that looked like a tornado had flattened it. Max was very excited about that.

 

IMG_20171203_130359IMG_20171203_132315IMG_20171203_132144The science museum, which we went back to on Sunday, was one of the coolest science museums I’ve been to, even if it’s planetarium was very, very lame.

Max at the diner for Sunday breakfast!