A Day at the Museum

It was a great day to play hookey from work and head to the museum with my two favorite girls. The Museum of Science and Industry has changed a lot since I was a kid but a few old favorites still remain:

• The people sliced up like a loaves of bread and pressed between glass. How do I get that gig when I die? Grossing out kids for years to come.
• The "Petroleum Planet" - fossil fuels and petrochemicals are your friends (sponsored by Big Oil)!
• The perpetually out of order Coal Mine. I don't think there's an actual exhibit, just a sign that says "Closed Today".
• The mini-circus dioramas. I can't think of anything funny to say about them but for some reason they stick out in my memory.
• The street of yesterday. It always pissed me off that you couldn't go in the stores!
• The half a toilet that really flushes. That's funny all by itself.

As a parent, so much of your enjoyment comes from seeing the amazement in children when they experience something for the first time. The "look at that" moments don't come often enough but, they're great when they do. Now if we could just find a way to get the sliced up guy's but over to the half a toilet, that would be gold!