When we returned to the city, we braved the outdoor seating at a good pizza place in 90 degree heat. Then we headed for the museums, but Lola made a stop at the Cupcake Emporium where she and Mommy shared a strawberry cupcake and Daddy opted for coconut.
Grandma kindly offered to come with Kathy to the Owens-Thomas House (1816-19), the third of the museums on our list. It was furnished in authentic period style. Kathy couldn't miss the tour: her research specialization is the period between 1780-1830. Here are pictures of its garden and the back of the house. Here, we were told a crazy story about Walter Scott (the novelist) being given an American plantation. Kathy immediately started checking out the story, but now thinks the guide was tired and babbling because she could not find any evidence of such a huge gift.
Here is the garden and former slave quarters, where undoing a 1910 drop-ceiling exposed the largest expanse of haint-blue paint they know of (we saw the paint, but should we believe the claim of its largeness after the Walter Scott problem?).
After the museums, Lola returned to the hotel pool, where she met a nice Polish-American girl, Nina (Ninotchka), about 10 years old, and her family. The day before, she had met a huge crew of Irish step-dancers, who had loaned her some nifty pool toys.
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