MY ARMS
On Friday I got permission to leave work early and we drove to Gatlinburg, TN. After checking into our hotel we found a Wal-Mart and got a few things, and I obtained a sketchbook and a little wooden dummy so I could finally learn to draw the right way. Saturday we were supposed to visit Dollywood but wound up looking in lots and lots of stores. (Hey everybody, I finally started getting into Black Butler and then discovered there was no volume II!) Then we went to Wonderworks, which is, in foolish little brother's own words, like the SciTrek museum we used to have but better. Lots of fun/educational/interesting things inside such as
-a game that after asking 20 generic-sounding questions correctly guessed that I was thinking of a snowboard
-something that had to do with gravity and me peddling hard enough to go upside down
-a tiny but life-sized replica space capsule (now I remember why I don't want to be an astronaut, insert cruel joke about Storm here)
-an obstacle course full of ropes that went up 4 stories and made me really sore when I was done (they played awesome music from movies related to space)
-a bed of nails nobody wanted to lie on but me (it didn't hurt)
-a 'create your own roller coaster' simulator, for which foolish little brother selected nearly every possible move, then when we were strapped/closed in, turned to me and (jokingly) said "We're gonna die"
-an art gallery full of optical illusions
Well, I liked it.
Sunday we checked out and then went to the aquarium run by the people in charge of Ripley's Believe-it-or-Not. There was a huge pool beneath which ran a long tunnel with lazy sawfish sleeping on top and a crack in the acrylic from a shark attack earlier. O_O There were also penguins, stingrays and frozen key lime pie on a stick. I WAS CURIOUS.
Then we drove home.
-a game that after asking 20 generic-sounding questions correctly guessed that I was thinking of a snowboard
-something that had to do with gravity and me peddling hard enough to go upside down
-a tiny but life-sized replica space capsule (now I remember why I don't want to be an astronaut, insert cruel joke about Storm here)
-an obstacle course full of ropes that went up 4 stories and made me really sore when I was done (they played awesome music from movies related to space)
-a bed of nails nobody wanted to lie on but me (it didn't hurt)
-a 'create your own roller coaster' simulator, for which foolish little brother selected nearly every possible move, then when we were strapped/closed in, turned to me and (jokingly) said "We're gonna die"
-an art gallery full of optical illusions
Well, I liked it.
Sunday we checked out and then went to the aquarium run by the people in charge of Ripley's Believe-it-or-Not. There was a huge pool beneath which ran a long tunnel with lazy sawfish sleeping on top and a crack in the acrylic from a shark attack earlier. O_O There were also penguins, stingrays and frozen key lime pie on a stick. I WAS CURIOUS.
Then we drove home.