Single Parenthood, day 5

After another early morning, the kids and I made Mickey Mouse(tm) pancakes and then headed to the climbing gym. The kids let me do a little bouldering while they played with toy cars, and then I belayed Zoe up some climbs. It was the first time that she had clipped a rope into quickdraws, and I was quite proud of her. This was on top rope, and she back clipped every draw, but still! From there, we went to the Grenoble Museum to see the new Giacometti show. It had just opened and was totally mobbed. I was a little chagrined because I couldn't find my membership card, and it is not computerised... and then I remembered that a yearly membership costs 18 euros, so I just bought another one. "Kids" under 18 are free by the way, so a one day father and kids visit to the Cal Academy is two times more expensive than an entire year of all-you-can consume museuming at the Grenoble museum.

In the exhibit, I ran into our old friends (and climbers!) Martin and Marianne and their kids. I remembered that Marianne's cubicle at the IBS had been plastered with Giacometti postcards and was actually about to text them to tell them about the exhibition. My kids ran out of energy about midway through, so we left, went home and spent the rest of the afternoon doing very little of anything.