These are friends of ours from Israel. Baruch Maoz, with his wife Bracha, is a national pastor in Israel (until he retires in December). They were in the states for several months to visit with family (two of their daughters currently live in the states) and to visit their supporting churches, and we got the privilege of spending a weekend with them. We spent some time Saturday evening together and then Sunday afternoon at some other friends' house, and then yesterday we planned to have lunch together and then go to the Art Museum.
We were really excited about the museum, especially since the girls and I have been doing picture studies with a different work of art each week (we are currently doing Renoir). The museum has several Renoirs, as well as other works from book we have read, so we were excited to see them in person. We researched where each work was, where the handicapped parking was, etc. and planned our visit. The only thing we didn't think to check was......the days they were open. Turns out, museums in Philadelphia are closed on Mondays. Hmmmm....who knew?! We, of course, found out as we walked up the (back) steps to the entrance. :) So much for impressing our out-of-town friends and having a cool field trip.
Anyway, we went to the visitor center instead and watched a movie and saw the liberty bell (the girls really wanted to see it) before bidding good-bye to Baruch and Bracha. We told them that, maybe next time we would take them to the art museum on a non-Monday so they could actually see the inside of it. :)
(We also had to schedule a day on our calendar to go to the museum, since the girls were so disappointed about it.)
