birthday!

Yesterday was my birthday! Although I was still in the midst of proofreading my essays before I submitted them to NSF, Phil insisted that we do something fun together.

After classes, we went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History.  We picked up our Marauder's Map of the Museum and did the Harry Potter Scavenger Hunt.  We learned the science between HP phenomena such as the Invisibility Cloak (camouflage), thestrals (giant Cretaceous horses), the rubies in Gryffindor's sword, saw a bird with a big tail that looks like Fawkes, and saw the stuffed version of Hedwig.

After the museum we went to the new clover restaurant in Harvard Square.  The original food truck parks right outside my building, and now they have a real live restaurant!  (I would link to their website, but I got spyware last time I opened their website.  Who would hack clover??)