No Chicks Hatching, No Museums, No Bounce U

Yesterday morning, Ian asked for something to eat. But all of a sudden, he asked particularly for an egg from the refrigerator, and I didn't think we had any hard-boiled eggs ready to eat, so I asked him why he wanted an egg:

"I want to see if a chick will come out. They're [the eggs] new from yesterday."

I explained that refrigerated eggs don't hatch; you have to get them while they're still under the hen. [I didn't mention any other prerequisites...]

I then went on to mention that when I was a lad, one of my favorite things was to watch baby chicks hatching in an incubator at the Museum of Science. I also mentioned that since we're members of the Children's Museum, we should also be able to get into the Musuem of Science for free, and we could probably make a trip of it; they might still have hatching chicks there. [They did as recently as about ten years ago...]

Ian then declared:

"I'm sad about two things today, Daddy. That I can't have a baby chick and I can't go to the museum today, or Bounce U." [Bounce U is an indoor bouncing/jumping place for youngsters of his age...]

(June 17, 2009)