TV Teaches

Tonight we ate dinner at a delightful, family-friendly Greek restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia. There was a painting on the wall of a crumbling Greek building. John asked us, "What's that building?" I explained very knowingly that it was a building in a country far, far away called Greece, and that the building was very old, but that I didn't know what it was called.

John answered matter-of-factly, "It's the Parthenon."

I asked, "What?"

"The Parthenon. It's the Parthenon."

Chris grabbed my iPhone and did an Internet search to confirm that the painting was indeed of the Parthenon!

We pondered where on earth he could have learned such a thing. On the drive home it occurred to me that John really enjoys the television show "The Wonder Pets" where the classroom critters travel to other countries to save animals in trouble. I asked John, "Honey, did the Wonder Pets ever travel to Greece?"

"Yes, to save an inch worm."

When we got back to the hotel room, I checked online and discovered, once again, that John was right: there was an episode (season 1, episode 3) of "The Wonder Pets" when they traveled to Greece and the Parthenon to save an inch worm!

I know these things are so small, but they're still amazing to us!