Fianceversary
In the many years since I've been to a Science Museum/Natural History Museum, I'd completely forgotten about dinosaurs. Not that I forgot they existed, but that the creatures began to seem smaller, more normal in my mind. I started thinking, sure dinosaurs were bigger than animals today, but they were just a little bigger, just different types of animals.
Boy, was I wrong. Phil and I went to the Science Museum yesterday. They had two of the most amazing skeletons I've ever scene: a complete triceratops and a diplodocus (it looked like a brontosaurus). Dinosaurs are not just large animals. They are ginormous, terrifying monsters! I could barely get close the the triceratops skeleton because it was so real and huge, and I was sure that it would turn and charge me. Dinosaurs are so awesome. I feel like a 7-year-old boy with this new fascination.
We also saw the Day in Pompeii exhibit, which was also incredible. Particularly the body casts. The rest of the exhibit was good, but a little beginner for us as knowledgeable Classics majors. But the body casts were incredible and horrible. And there was some live lava in a far more controlled setting than Phil's experience at Volcan Pacaya in Guatemala. But still cool.
The Minneapolis fireworks are also so cool and awesome. The lights, the noise, the colors, the crackling, the booming! There were some fireworks that looked just like fireflies and the squirmed around after they exploded.
All in all, a cool, awesome 4th of July and fianceversary (Phil proposed last year on the 4th).
Boy, was I wrong. Phil and I went to the Science Museum yesterday. They had two of the most amazing skeletons I've ever scene: a complete triceratops and a diplodocus (it looked like a brontosaurus). Dinosaurs are not just large animals. They are ginormous, terrifying monsters! I could barely get close the the triceratops skeleton because it was so real and huge, and I was sure that it would turn and charge me. Dinosaurs are so awesome. I feel like a 7-year-old boy with this new fascination.
We also saw the Day in Pompeii exhibit, which was also incredible. Particularly the body casts. The rest of the exhibit was good, but a little beginner for us as knowledgeable Classics majors. But the body casts were incredible and horrible. And there was some live lava in a far more controlled setting than Phil's experience at Volcan Pacaya in Guatemala. But still cool.
The Minneapolis fireworks are also so cool and awesome. The lights, the noise, the colors, the crackling, the booming! There were some fireworks that looked just like fireflies and the squirmed around after they exploded.
All in all, a cool, awesome 4th of July and fianceversary (Phil proposed last year on the 4th).