January 25, 2012
First stop was the Beneski Natural History Museum. The museum was practically deserted. Oh yeah, everyone else was at work. Typically, I am not into natural history museums ... too many displays to read. In this case, I wanted to find out more about the dinosaur tracks in the Amherst area. I had visited the dinosaur tracks site just outside of Holyoke along the Connecticut River on an earlier excursion. Turned out, this museum had had an extensive display of tracks from thoroughout the area. In addition, there were impressive fossil and skeleton displays as well.
One thing I did learn, however, was never let your guard down where dinosaurs are concerned ... even dead ones.
Our next stop was just up the street ... the Mead Art Gallery on the Amherst College Campus. The Mead is a small facility with an interesting collection. The highlight of the visit was definitely the Nick Cave exhibit. Nick did a tribal dance costume display and video that was colorful and unique.
There is an Ethiopian Restaurant on Main Street in Amherst ... Raku. I love African food. I enjoyed the atmosphere, but the food was lackluster. Worth a try, but I won't be going back.
Before heading home, we decided to get a coffee or tea. We found the Lime/Red Tea Room. The specialty was bubble tea. I didn't know then, nor do I know now what bubble tea really is. You get your tea and they ask you what condiment you want in your tea. Per the waiter's suggestion, we got the tapioca. The tea was good, but the tapioca just sunk to the bottom of the cup. The waiter soon recognized that we had no idea what we were doing. He brought us both a big straw and explained that we should suck the tapioca out using the straw. The down side of all of this advanced learning was that the tapioca both looked like and had the feel of snot being sucked through a straw ... which did not add to the pleasure of the beverage.
We finished our booger tea and headed for home. I wonder how bubble tea got its name?
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