Doing The Columbus Things, Part Three: Art And Movies

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​DOING THE COLUMBUS THINGS, PART THREE: ART AND MOVIES

...Continued from previous post:
     The following morning, Saturday morning, was our check-out day from the Aloft. We decided for breakfast to again walk over to the Northstar Cafe, where we'd eaten the day before. 
       Though we arrived at the restaurant shortly after it opened at 9 am the place was already pretty crowded.

      But the service was nonetheless still fast and the food good. We ordered the same meals as we had the day before: Tom, the Country Breakfast and me the Breakfast Sandwich (See previous post, ​https://www.ailantha.com/blog/doing-the-columbus-things-part-2-german-village-and-the-franklin-park-conservatory), but this time we also split an order of breakfast potatoes, which were also really good, nice and hot and crispy.

     Though the servers buzzed around the restaurant busy as bees, Tom and I were able to talk to our server for a few minutes. He shared that he enjoyed working at Northstar and was able to support his wife and child from this job without needing a second job to supplement his income. This gave  us a good feeling about this restaurant. Though Northstar is on the pricy side, we figured that if its workers are content and well-paid then it's worth it to us to pay a bit more.
       In any case, by the time we left the line at Northstar was out the door.

       After breakfast we walked around Easton for a while.

     Once again I found myself craving one last Dragon Donut, so we swung by the Dragon Donut shop again,

...before heading back to the Aloft to pack up and check out.

      Our plan for the day was to see a 1:45 pm matinee at the Easton AMC, but as we had a good three-and-a-half hours to kill before then I suggested that we spend a couple of those hours downtown at the Columbus Museum of Art.
        We hadn't been there since before COVID, and on this overcast Saturday morning we both agreed that the Art Museum was the ticket,

...especially since the museum is free to retired military and their families.

      It so happened that the museum had a special exhibit, half a dozen 17th Century Raphael tapestries on loan from the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden, Germany. Now, not being a fan of Renaissance art, I wasn't intending to pay the extra fee to see the Raphael tapestries. But as it turned out, the exhibit was included in our "price," so we received our sticker to see the tapestries.
        I found myself mesmerized by them,

...the illusions of light,,

...and the human features,

...so much captured by the weaving of colored threads,

...a testament to the greatness of human ability when humans use this ability to create beauty instead of to wreak chaos and destruction.

     So ran my thoughts while looking at the tapestries.
      We spent most of the rest of our time looking at the contemporary works.

     This poster on one of the walls asked for comments,

...of which there were many,

    I left one, too.

     After the museum we headed back to the Easton AMC for our movie, a sweet little rom-com called "Ask Me To Dance," 

​...which we both enjoyed.
​       After the movie, though it wasn't quite  4 pm, we were ready for dinner, so we walked across the street from the theater to an Italian restaurant called Brio. Fortunately, the Saturday night crowd hadn't yet arrived.

      I had a  margherita flatbread, which was very yummy,

...and Tom went for pasta in tomato cream sauce, which he said was also delicious.

         After dinner we walked to the indoor area of the mall to hopefully rustle up some dessert from the food court. We opted to split a Cinnabon.

      While we sat in the food court eating our Cinnabon and people-watching, I took in the diversity of the folks in the mall,

...and it warmed my heart.
      After we finished our Cinnabon the night was still young enough for us to take in another movie, so we left Easton Town Center and drove across town to Campus (as the area around Ohio State University is locally known), to the Gateway Film Center, one of Columbus's art theaters,

...where we bought tickets to a movie called "Pretty Problems," 

...which was shown in a small theater with about three dozen very comfy seats, which we had all to ourselves.

      "Pretty Problems" was a comedy about an unwitting young couple, 

...who make a new friend who invites the couple for a weekend at their country house, and the weekend turns out a lot crazier than the couple had anticipated.

      After the movie, as we were leaving the theater, Tom said, "Haven't we seen a movie with that plot before?"
         "Several," I replied.
         Outside the theater was all lit up and pretty and crowded with Saturday night strollers, probably most of them University stidents.

       Then we returned home.
       My birthday getaway completed, I now felt officially 71.