9/12/2012

Today was swimming, stairs and my cardio rehab class. I think the class went pretty well. We answered all of the questions they cornered us with. This exercise class counts for 10% of my grade. After class and the weekly stair workout I came home and studied for a bit before going to the Napoleon exhibit with Nova.

You may be wondering why there is a Napoleon exhibit in Melbourne. Napoleon and his first wife Josephine were actually large fans of Australia's fleura and fauna and had many specimens brought back on exhibitions. The most exciting thing I learned was that Napoleon is responsible for the story of swan lake. There were no black swans in Europe until Josephine had two brought back to France from Australia. She bread the swans and had 6 at the time of her death. The black swan is such a stark contrast to it's white European counterpart that the natural contrast sparked the story. I found the exhibit fantastic.
While I was out Kat made muffin sized chocolate lava cookies. Yum! I ate a couple too many.

Today's elephant is called Mali waves