Captain’s Log: Day 5
In “Poetics,” Aristotle wrote:
Since the objects of imitation are men in action, and these men must be either of a higher or a lower type (for moral character mainly answers to these divisions, goodness and badness being the distinguishing marks of moral differences), it follows that we must represent men either as better than in real life, or as worse, or as they are.
I’m going for comedy out of tragedy here, so you all know that I pick and choose what will make the best stories. Heroes and villains and a story arranged just so.
You know that, right? Right?! I guess I know how Augusten Burroughs feels. Sigh.
Anyway, today made the whole vacation worthwhile. Family time all day with the Crayola Factory thrown in for good measure.
The place is pretty awesome. A Mecca for my artistic boys, although they were leery at first. A few kids in mid tantrum came out as we were going in. Dominic said, “What’s happening in there that everyone comes out screaming?”
It’s nothing a little nap couldn’t fix.
This was the best thing we could have done. Look at the boys with their cousins!
Eddie just said, “I liked today.”
Yeah, me too.
Beth
Coming tomorrow: the home stretch
Observe and report 
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