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And I was doing do well with the posting every day. Ah well.
Science Day:
We went to the Ben Franklin Science Museum. The outside is big and big. The inside was being gutted. But not the whole inside, which is good. Remaining was a large amount of space which is currently devoted to Pirates! But not, we think, irate pirates.
It was about a former slave ship, the Whydah, and the short-lived pirate captain Sam Bellamy who captained her. She (why are boats always female?) sank in 1717 and to date the excavated remains are the only pirate treasure ever found. So now I know what a piece of eight is, and my head is full of, say it with me, Gay Pirates. Possibly dead.
I walked through the Giant Heart. It's two stories tall. It was in the human and other things body section. There was a very interesting display on the relative sizes of animal hearts. Whale hearts are actually quite small for the amount of blood they pump, not much bigger than an elephants'.
Then we went to the planetarium and there was this amazingly cool flythrough of the Milky Way galaxy. For anyone who doesn't know: while all the planets in this solar system are on a plane (which provides evidence for several theories, wince you'd expect the orbits to not be in plane if space is 3D . . . anyway) the plane of this solar system is not on the plane of our galaxy. I'm really not quite sure where people got these animals in the sky. I don't see it.
We walked home through an interestingly torrential dew. It was interesting because, while the wet was only mild and quite misty, it was also very sunny. So much so, in fact, that there was this gorgeous rainbow. When we got back to the hotel, I went to sleep.
Driving Day:
We drove. We listened to A Hat Full of Sky. We went quite out of our way to go to Muncy, a town with a mall. The mall has an arch that isn't very arch-shaped at all as an entry gate. The mall also has a Grizzly showroom. Not the bear; the heavy machinery company. Dad bought some lathe bits to go with his vintage lathe, which is so old it has no electronic parts at all.
Then we finished driving to Corning, New York. This small town is famous for its glass. It should, however, be famous for its delicious brick-oven-bakes pizza. I know this because we had it for dinner, and it was delicious.
Now, I go to sleep.
Science Day:
We went to the Ben Franklin Science Museum. The outside is big and big. The inside was being gutted. But not the whole inside, which is good. Remaining was a large amount of space which is currently devoted to Pirates! But not, we think, irate pirates.
It was about a former slave ship, the Whydah, and the short-lived pirate captain Sam Bellamy who captained her. She (why are boats always female?) sank in 1717 and to date the excavated remains are the only pirate treasure ever found. So now I know what a piece of eight is, and my head is full of, say it with me, Gay Pirates. Possibly dead.
I walked through the Giant Heart. It's two stories tall. It was in the human and other things body section. There was a very interesting display on the relative sizes of animal hearts. Whale hearts are actually quite small for the amount of blood they pump, not much bigger than an elephants'.
Then we went to the planetarium and there was this amazingly cool flythrough of the Milky Way galaxy. For anyone who doesn't know: while all the planets in this solar system are on a plane (which provides evidence for several theories, wince you'd expect the orbits to not be in plane if space is 3D . . . anyway) the plane of this solar system is not on the plane of our galaxy. I'm really not quite sure where people got these animals in the sky. I don't see it.
We walked home through an interestingly torrential dew. It was interesting because, while the wet was only mild and quite misty, it was also very sunny. So much so, in fact, that there was this gorgeous rainbow. When we got back to the hotel, I went to sleep.
Driving Day:
We drove. We listened to A Hat Full of Sky. We went quite out of our way to go to Muncy, a town with a mall. The mall has an arch that isn't very arch-shaped at all as an entry gate. The mall also has a Grizzly showroom. Not the bear; the heavy machinery company. Dad bought some lathe bits to go with his vintage lathe, which is so old it has no electronic parts at all.
Then we finished driving to Corning, New York. This small town is famous for its glass. It should, however, be famous for its delicious brick-oven-bakes pizza. I know this because we had it for dinner, and it was delicious.
Now, I go to sleep.
