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This weekend the Webmeister celebrated a birthday. Well, actually more than one birthday – just only one of them was his. The kids and I joined him down south Jersey for some birthday celebrations en famille (his, that is).

Now that he’s such an old guy (do you think I can still call him my toy boy?) we figured we’d better keep him young by indulging his inner kid. First we hit the New Jersey Aquarium .

We saw all sorts of cool fish

and sharks

and the Webmeister took this awesome video of the jellyfish:


We were really disappointed with the 4D SpongeBob Squarepants ride, even though Daughter and I looked rather Mod Squad in our 4D glasses (6D in my case)



Take my advice. Don’t waste the $5 a person. The thing lasted about 4 minutes and was a complete ripoff. But other than that, the Aquarium was awesome. Although I did rather wonder where this guy fits into the whole Aquarium theme:



I mean, I know he can survive underwater for periods of time, but he’s hardly what I consider fishy. Still, he looks kinda how I felt after all I ate over the weekend.


Speaking of which, that evening, we had a delicious birthday dinner with The Webmeister’s parents. Mom Webmeister cooked really awesome “Spherical meat” as my daughter calls them – that’s meatballs to the rest of us mere mortals. She also made these incredibly delicious truffle brownies that tasted like molten chocolate cake but in square rather than semicircular form. (See! I can speak food geometry, too!)

The following morning we hit the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia where I almost met Brian Selznick. More on that later. But first, I risked life and limb and $2 to ride the Sky Cycle:



The Franklin Institute is a really cool place and I highly recommend a visit.

Seeing as that it was the Webmeister’s birthday, we made him use this machine that takes a picture of you and then shows you what you’ll look like when you’re old.



I looked like an old hag. But lucky him - he looked pretty much the same. Now is that because he already looks old or because he’s ageless? Hmmm….

Anyway, I had to go out to the car with daughter to attend to some diabetes matters and on the way back in I saw that none other than BRIAN SELZNICK was giving a talk and then signing books. I was completely bummed because I was too late for the talk, but I was hoping to meet him at the signing in the Science Store afterwards, especially since we are now Scholastic sibs. But this is what the line looked like:





So this is about as close as I got to Brian Selznick (taken through the window of the store):



I’m sure we would have been best buds if we’d like, you know, actually met. BFF’s, in fact. Oh well. Maybe next time.