Aaron and I went to a lecture at the Tellus Science Museum by a technician who worked on the Saturn V rocket and by a model rocketry enthusiast. It was okay. It was fun to see all the familiar Apollo 11 footage, but we knew almost everything the technician said about the Apollo missions. I wish he had given us more inside details about his job putting together the rocket and what it was like to be at the launches. The rocketry enthusiast was just a little too enthusiastic. I wasn't particularly interested in that part, and he was convinced that it would hold our family together Republican-style if only we would build rockets. A little weird.
Afterward the lecture, we went to dinner with friends and then to see the New X-Men movie. It was amazing! I have always loved Magneto best, and this was his movie. The backstory on the friendship and parting of the ways between Magneto and Professor X was wonderful, and the very young and insecure Mystique was a delight. This might have been the best X-Men movie yet, even without Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart.
