One of the new galleries is currently hosting, "Very Eric Carle: A Very Hungry, Quiet, Lonely, Clumsy, Busy Exhibit." It runs until January 25 and is included in the regular admission, which I feel is a bargain at $11 for ages 1-64 and $10 for seniors.

The cafe is more of a place to get snacks than a meal.

Although you could easily spend more time if the kids (or adults) don't tire out, we were there for a couple of hours. All of our party, ages 1 - 71 had a great time!

For lunch, we revisited Abigal's Grill & Bar in Topeka, where I had a great open faced roast beef sandwich in November. My classic cheeseburger, was average, though they did let me add grilled onions at no charge. Linda said that the chicken Philly sandwich was one of the best she ever had. The fish in the fish and chips was very good, though the coleslaw which we substituted for the chips tasted like it wasn't made in-house.
 
 

Chicken Philly

Today I did dim sum off the menu, getting stuffed eggplant, beef short rib and seven flavor mushroom. The dishes came out one at a time as they were ready and I enjoyed each one more than the one before. There are 43 items on the dim sum portion of the menu, with most of them priced at $4.50 or $5.50. Some are $9.95.

There was warmer weather than normal and a lot of fog, but there were a few hours of sunshine when I was particularly busy taking photos.
  
  

Although I usually get their pizza, tonight we had two sandwiches, The Vinnie and the Chicken Parmigiana, both of which were on very good, lightly toasted bread. The Vinnie has capicola, pepperoni, salami, pepperoncini, mozzarella, lettuce, tomato, red onion, garlic vinaigrette. It is a little spicy and very nice.

The Chicken Parmigiana has chicken breast, red sauce, basil pesto, provolone cheese. Both sandwiches had plenty of ingredients, but neither of us wanted to eat quite that much bread and we moved all the ingredients to one half of the sandwich.