We kept busy today and spent a lot of time walking. A bit more time that I would have preferred, actually -- my feet were sore at the end of it. We visited the 
Krannert Art Museum where they were having an exhibition of Japanese wood-block prints. They were interesting and there were several nice posters that described the technique and helped you interpret some of the features. In general, however, without knowing the underlying stories and conventions in the medium, they were fairly inscrutable. A bunch showed samurai with crossed eyes, for example. I expect that means something, but without better interpretive materials, there's no way to know. They had a nice precis of one or two of the stories that had inspired the pictures, but many were from other stories. Another exhibition tried to illustrate Japanese influences in the artwork of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. They might have been able to make the case with clearer examples or more interpretative info, but they examples they showed seemed unconvincing to me. Still, it was nice to see all the art.
After lunch, we stopped at a game and comic store I've visited before and I found a nice present for the boys. I think they'll be really excited when I get home. I think it'll be more successful than the present I got for Daniel when I went to Wisconsin one time. Daniel was an infant -- probably around one -- and I found this cool stuffed goldfish that had a velcro wrist-strap, so you couldn't lose it. I was excited to come home and give it to him, but he was horrified when I attached it to him, and began screaming and shaking his hand to try to get it off. The way I remember it, Alisa claimed I had intentionally gotten it because I knew he would hate it. That was not true. Although it was pretty funny...