Artsy Fartsy

I guess you could say our family is artsy fartsy. Lauren and I are the artsy and Danny and Michael are the fartsy. Okay, I'm fartsy after dinner most of the time too.

This past Friday Danny and I went to the North Carolina Museum of Art for their Friday evening event which is basically food, wine, and live music and a nice stroll among art. Its pretty low key, fun, inexpensive way that fills the fine art bucket in my soul (you all have one too right??). Every time I go into an art museum I have pangs of missing working in one. It really is a culture all of its own with some interesting quirky people.

Right now most of the museum is closed due to renovations that will reopen in 2010 and it promises to be awesome. At least they have some of their modern art (my FAVORITE) on display. My hope is to some day be a docent at the museum. "A docent is a trained volunteer who serves as a tour guide armed with in-depth knowledge about the museum’s collections and exhibits and helps make museum visits special."

Well, as if we didn't have enough of the museum the next morning we returned at 8 am to participate in the museum's 5K Run for the Arts. This was organized by a group known as the Contemporaries. They are the 20 to 40 something members of the museum who organize events and raise money for funding the purchase of modern/contemporary art for the collection. SO COOL!

Well, this was my first race and Danny was bouncing off the walls he was sooo excited. He loves to do races and was so happy to do this with me. The course was through the museum's sculpture garden which was pretty neat. However, they failed to post a person or sign at the turning point and many of us ran an additional mile out of our way.

Danny and I were not expecting to win, but I did not want to come in last. I have some pride. I'd like to say we ran the whole course, because about 3 months ago I was running up to 4.5 miles on the treadmill. Yes, treadmill. A different animal. The park had significant hills and my out of shape self kept team Dulin back and in fast walking mode for a lot of the race. No matter, we still crossed the finish line in the first third of the runners. How fun! And painful.

The next day we could not walk. Oh well. Danny is getting ready to sign us up for Race for the Cure in June......