kids v. culture

Ok, so we try to do our part to make sure that our kids are cultured and smart. So, since it has been raining so much and we haven't done anything "refined" lately we took the boys to the Union Station Museum in Ogden. They have a train museum, a car museum, and a gun museum all in the same building. After we went through all of those we decided to go through the art gallery that is there as well. (Mike really likes art and the boys were in a good mood) We were wandering around enjoying the art when I noticed that Ike was paying very close attention to one particular painting. So Mike and I headed over to see what he was looking at. To our horror, we realized that he had stuck his large gold sticker right in the middle of the painting!! Of course, we both yelled and he jumped back and started to scream, taking that stupid, gold sticker with him. Thankfully, the painting was not damaged. We looked at the price list and almost died!!!! The painting was going for $3,000. EEK!!! It was NOT that good. I am glad that Ike didn't hurt the picture. Needless to say, we left in a hurry and we have no plans to expose our children to any more character building, personality rounding, culture enriching activities any time in the near or distant future.