So I tried to send out this blog, or at least part of it last Wednesday while waiting in line freezing my butt off at the Academy. But for whatever reason they keyboard wouldn't pop up on my iPhone in the main blog box. Probably better b/c I could barely move my fingers they were so frozen. I was so scared I was going to end up going by myself! A couple of friends were supposed to meet me there at 9am so I got there super early at 8:30am b/c I took the train and it was either get there at 8:30 or get there at 9:45am and I don't like to be late. So my friends canceled on me at 9:05am. I was tired, freezing, and NOT happy! At about 9:20 or so I saw Neil, Cy, and Jeremy. So in order to appease the extremely long line of mean people I called out 'Hey guys I've been saving your spot!' When people were like 'where did they come from????' I explained that we were here for a class trip. That didn't seem to make them less angry but it shut them up! 5 minutes later we ran into Nick so we officially had a group. The guys were so glad to see me b/c the end of the line wasn't even visible around the front end of the yard. I still dont' know how far back it went.
When we got in we went
to get passes for the Planatarium and when we did that this other girl gave us passes to the 3-D bug show! Very cool.Although I found that my eyes were having some issues some times focusing properly. The glasses were super nice but I wish they could do 3-D movies without the glasses. We had like half an hour to kill before it was time to line up for the Planetarium show. This place was soooo packed!
They had so many neat exhibits. Really simple things too like 4 TVs talking about some recent environmental issues. It was really interesting b/c they talked about how they used human hair to make these mats for cleaning up oil out of the ocean. The first time they were really used was last year when that Cosco oil spill happened.
Right around that they had a display that had a Google Maps quiz abou
t the ocean. Neil became obsessed with it! But I dont think he ever did better than 25% which was pretty funny. We joked that the kids who tried it out after us probably got 100%. I found the quizes pretty interesting b/c it made me want to find an exhibit that was teaching the information so I could go back and answer the questions right! There was also this neat bug exhibit where the ground was lit up like the floor of the rainforrest and they would tell you what bugs are around and how to draw them out from under the leaves. It was so funny b/c these kids were just running all over the place trying to stomp on the bugs when they'd run out from under the leaves. It made me want to play but I figured I'd probably not be a
ble to get away with it like they did.
So it was time for us to head to the Planetarium and that place was AMAZING! It was so big and glowed quite orange! It's the world's largest all digital planetarium and I want one for my house. I don't think it's very feasible but it was so cool. You felt like you were in the movie. The camera would pan up and out over a landscape and you felt you were flying over it all by yourself. SO COOL!!!!!!!! They did a tour of the glaxy and talked about other planets in other solar systems and out all over the universe. I all of a sudden found it very frustrating that we don't know more about the universe and made me wonder if we would ever know enough to satisfy my curi
ousity in my life time.After the show we went up to the living roof which was so neat. I absolutely loved this place and could've spent a week here. Even though we had been in the museum for a few hours and it was well into the afternoon the line was still wrapped around god knows were to get into this place. They had everyone stopped at the front door and were letting people in as people left. Our next stop was the Naturalist? center. The one Sharon said we had to stop by and try to come up with an idea of how computer based training could be beneficial for it. After going there and seeing all the books and all the tactile displays it almost seemed like computer displays would defeat the purpose of it being all natural. It was kind of funny b/c the guys went straight to the few computers they had along the wall and I immediately found a puzzle. Of course!
We checked out the aquarium, the rainforrest, and the carbon footprint of our food section and I was beginning to reach the point of complete despair. You spend enough time in a place that's promoting how horrible the environment has become and how we're all going to die and your brain just starts to have mini aneurisms. That's when it's time to leave! So we left! And guessed that the rest of our class probably showed up, took one look at the line and left. Slackers! =)
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