March 2nd 2008: (Parts of the) Harvard Museum of Natural History

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Breakfast
We ate breakfast at home. We had a turkey, eggplant, green bean, and squash omelette, mostly made with ingredients stolen from Dudley. We also had leftover pizza and fries (from our previous night's dinner) and turkey soup (previously cooked at home). We finished breakfast with raspberry beer and dark chocolate (leftover from the previous night's dinner).
Harvard Museum of History
In the afternoon, we went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History, mainly to see the exhibit of glass flowers.	The glass replicas of plants exhibited virtuosity. The pieces had incredible detail: e.g., veins on petals, the quantity of thorns on cactuses. For many pieces, you wouldn't know they were glass unless someone told you or you could handle them.	Another example of these realistic, precise, detailed glass plants.	My camera batteries died early while viewing the exhibit. Hence, I have no more pictures of glass pieces, or any other part of the museum for that matter.
The museum also had an extraordinary collection of minerals. (I mean that in the strongest, literal sense.) It reminded me how different two minerals of the same type can appear simply depending on the trace elements they contain. Some of the rocks were huge. I wish the exhibit told us how valuable the various rocks are.	I also saw an exhibit on climate change, viewed a display of black and white photography of animal parts (e.g., komodo dragon's eyes, elephant's feet), and glanced through the rest of the museum before the need for a snack caused me to retreat.	Di Yin in a real, working phone booth in the building's stairway/entrance.
Dinner
We assembled dinner from a variety of sources. From Clear Flour Bakery, the best bakery existent, an awesome baguette. From Super 88, a Korean-style sushi-roll. From Punjabi Dhaba, a decent/good chicken curry: tender chicken in a weak, red, oil-based sauce. Also from Clear Flour Bakery, a good apple coffeecake. It, however, had too much streusel for my taste.