I took the kids to IKEA for breakfast and then to the Liberty Science Museum yesterday. IKEA was a Swedish wonderland, as always. Liberty Science Museum was hell on wheels. All New Jersey schools were closed for the two day Teachers Union Convention, which no teacher actually attends. All those parents simultaneously decided to take their kids to the Science Museum yesterday, including moi.

The Museum was poorly run and expensive. The line for the cafeteria was an hour long, so we ate Dorritos from a vending machine for lunch. They sold us tickets for a movie, but neglected to tell us the time of the movie. My kids handled the chaos better than I did, and they got many kisses for their patience when they got home.

Not only was the Museum a disaster, but so were the other parents.

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