Yesterday, I pulled James out of school for a family field trip (minus Dave; he had to teach). We headed downtown to the Long Center to experience the Architects of Air Luminarium display, Mirazozo, with a group of professional photographers here in the Austin area. One of them set us up as a group and got us VIP access (hurray for skipping the line!) and we headed in to the … thing. It was amazing. Korben was probably the most affected by it as he calmed down inside whereas James went bonkers and wanted to play on it like it was some kind of playhouse-toy-roughhouse-thing. Lowell was curious but reserved, same as always.
We got down there at 9 AM for a 10 o’clock VIP appointment, so I parked a good distance away at the other end of Butler Park near a clean public restroom. The boys went bonkers running and exploring on the way over to the Long Center. They hadn’t been in such a wide open grassy space in a long time. I think the walk over to the luminarium was a blast for them. I love seeing them being silly.
When we got to the box office, we met up with the group and got our tickets and headed over to the luminarium where we were greeted by Shanti Freed, the Exhibition Manager for Architects of Air. She was very nice as she took our tickets and guided us to the airlock. I didn’t take any pictures of her, though.
I did take a few short videos, but with three boys and just me… I had to keep track of them so the video snippets are really short. Here is our entrance into Mirazozo.
Korben, chilax’n by the tree
Oh, and in case you’re curious, here are a couple of professional videos about the Architects of Air from Sydney, Australia. We watched these with the boys to prepare them for the tour and they kept asking if we were going to “that city” to see it. Oh how I wish we could hop a plane for a quickie to Sydney. That’ll be the day.
I was kicking myself for having completely forgotten my “big girl camera” but I remain convinced that the best camera is the one you have with you, so the iPhone 4 it was. Thankfully, it also captured video as well.
iPhone 4s :: edited with Instagram
