Thanks for the fish

these kahlua and hot chocolates! yum! Something about warm drinks just feel so nourishing…even when they’re loaded with alcohol (and marshmallows). Well, I don’t have much to talk about so I wanted to talk more about my trip to the science museum, aka, what I did on my winter vacation.

By far the coolest thing I saw was the “birth” exhibit. I know…it doesn’t sound very fun, but they had a glass case with baby chicken eggs that were about to hatch, and as I stood there one of them hatched, and one had just hatched minutes before. The little chicks were keeled over like they were dead, but I coudl see them breathing. I read the sign and it said that they had spent the last few hours trying to break out of their shells and were exhausted. poor things! They were so sweet. Then they’d get up and take a few wobbly steps and then fall forward and basically land on their heads. There were other eggs around and 2 more were being worked on from teh inside. So one of the chicks tried to help by pecking at it, or else he thought it was food. And it was just kind of incredible to realize that these little things lives had just started right then, and I felt sorry for them for teh cruelty of the world, and excited for them for all they had left to learn and experience. I couldn’t stop watching them. But then some annoying guy who refused to hang up his cell phone leaned in to look and started having a personal conversation in my ear, so I felt compelled to move on.

They also had a talk about the Iceman who was found on teh border of Italy and Austria. They found him frozen completely in tact, mummified in a glacier. He had a copper ax and some quivers and they could tell from isotopes in his hair that he was probably a coppersmith. He was 5′2 and 46 years old and they could tell that he was murdered because they gave him a cat scan or something and found an arrowhead in his ribs, in one of those big arteries. So he probably died almost instantly. IT was really fascinating. But we had to leave early to go to the planetarium show. That was interesting too, but sort of frustrating because there aren’t many answers, just a lot of questions. But if you look just above and to the right of the big dipper, there are hundreds of entire galaxies that you can see (or not, but they are there). So I looked up at the sky tonight and wanted to linger but it was freaking cold out there.

Well, those were the highlights.