SAMURAI --- Asian Art Museum SF

Today we went to the Asian Art Museum with Jeff's Mother and Grandmother. I was a little worried about Grandma, she is 92 years "young", but she did really well!

Unfortunately, we were not able to take pictures in the Samurai exhibit, but it was really interesting...we were lucky enough to catch the "Samurai Stories", so that got us in the mood for the exhibit.
I don't know if the boys really appreciated the exhibits, but, they did like the video presentations about Japanese Castles, Zen, Shinto and Tea Houses...(I just checked, they still remembered the topics :) ).
Here are the boys with Grandma. Don't they look good for the end of the day? On the way home, Jordan and Grandma went to sleep. In Jordan's defense, he went walking with Jeff this morning at 6:30 a.m.

This is one of the many "Buddhas" that are on exhibit at the museum. They are from all over Asia...you will notice that some are standing and some are sitting. Jodo Shinshu's Buddha is standing so I took this picture. (Phew! We asked Jordan the other day what sect of Buddhism we are...and he answered "Jodo Shinshu"....Good job Noreen!)
The next time you see Neil, ask him about the screen with the Dog. Can you see the dog in the middle, and all of the samurai on horseback with (egads!) bows and arrows? According to Neil, "The game is, you have to shoot the dog with an arrow. There is something on the end of the arrow, so the dog does not get damaged. They could not hit the dog on its head or back." It still sounds like it would hurt, eh.

This was not in the Samurai exhibit, so, I could take a picture (without my flash, I'll get to this in a second...grrrr).

Isn't this basket gorgeous? I love baskets, and there were BEAUTIFUL hand-woven baskets on display!

Here are my two angels....hee hee...at least they weren't "battling" while in the exhibits...

Okay, about the "no flash photography". It's getting REALLY hard raising two boys, you try to teach them "right from wrong", "good values" etc...then you have some a$$h0)e taking flash photography at a museum when there are signing saying that it is prohibited...plus, the guards told you the rules, plus, NO ONE else is....sigh, once again I had to have the "sometimes people don't want to follow the rules, but that is wrong" conversation with the boys. At least, they knew it was wrong....and I made sure to get us out of there before the guards came, since I had my camera around my neck...and YOU COULD SEE THE FLASH STROBES going off.

Sigh...I'm tired....nite!