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nonionayToday, I finally got around to getting a membership at the Pacific Science Center. Now I can visit the butterflies any time I want! Also, I look forward to finding out if laser shows are as guilty a pleasure as I think they're going to be. I also took advantage of this to get a discount on Mission Impossible 4 at the IMAX (which actually isn't much, if any more expensive than the other local theaters.)
First, of course, I toured the Science Center proper, which has a nice mix of the same stuff I remember as a kid (those creepy sniffy bottles!), new stuff (naked mole rats! axlotls!) and new versions of old stuff. The first time I remember going there, they had animatronic dinosaurs, which were the most magical things this little girl had ever seen. Now, they have more animatronic dinosaurs, which are clicky and clunky, but are still totally awesome.
I am so going to spend weekend afternoons there just staring at naked mole rats chewing on concrete and stepping on their sleeping comrades faces. (A sleeping mole-rat looks stone dead, by the way. They lie on their backs with all four legs in the air, like some cartoon character.)
The movie itself rocked, especially on the ginormous screen. You know the tower-climbing sequence in the trailer and the posters? Totally pants-pissing. Even though you know perfectly well that Tom Cruise isn't going to chip a single nail, vertigo is vertigo, and holy crap, that's a lot of open space.
First, of course, I toured the Science Center proper, which has a nice mix of the same stuff I remember as a kid (those creepy sniffy bottles!), new stuff (naked mole rats! axlotls!) and new versions of old stuff. The first time I remember going there, they had animatronic dinosaurs, which were the most magical things this little girl had ever seen. Now, they have more animatronic dinosaurs, which are clicky and clunky, but are still totally awesome.
I am so going to spend weekend afternoons there just staring at naked mole rats chewing on concrete and stepping on their sleeping comrades faces. (A sleeping mole-rat looks stone dead, by the way. They lie on their backs with all four legs in the air, like some cartoon character.)
The movie itself rocked, especially on the ginormous screen. You know the tower-climbing sequence in the trailer and the posters? Totally pants-pissing. Even though you know perfectly well that Tom Cruise isn't going to chip a single nail, vertigo is vertigo, and holy crap, that's a lot of open space.
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Date: 2012-01-08 10:16 pm (UTC)And yeah, the Animatronic Dinosaurs were the coolest thing ever!