Museum of Science and Industry

Ben Harp came and visited us this weekend. Ben has been living in Carlinville (both James' and Ben's hometown) for the past year. He starts training for a new job today so he wanted to come visit us before he was too busy. He got in Friday night, and we pretty much just hung out. But Saturday we went to the Museum of Science and Industry. I haden't been to this Museum since I was like 12 or 13 so it was fun. Ben ended up driving after we had breakfeast a local dinner. It only took 30 minutes driving, as opposed to an hour to an hour and half on public transportation.

We got in for free, because all employees of the major Museums in Chicago can get into the other Museums for free. So since I work for the Art Insititute I got us in free to the Museum. We had purchased tickets the night before the special Game on Exhibit, that had video games through the ages. I played an early version of Forgger on Atari, a couple of arcade games, and one of my all time favorite games, Sim City on Super NES. James and Ben seemed thrilled by the orginal Star Wars game. James and I were both hopeing there would be more history of video games, but it was mostly just playing games.

So after Game On we explored the train set. The thing is huge and awesome. Its much bigger than I remember it, and much more detailed It was pretty neat. After that we went and got Ice Cream in the old town area. Then Went and explored more the of the permanet exhibits. I like the fairy castle, and there was an area upstairs that had a description of the periodic table and what the different elements were used in. That was informative. We saw the baby chicks of course, and then looked at the U 505 submarine and the new houseing for it. Which was really nicely done.

So after 4 hours in the museum we were exhausted, and we headed on home where later we would go get pizza bear with Riche another friend of James' and Ben's.

I have to say some of the muesum was definatly geared toward kids, but there was a lot I enjoyed about the museum and a lot that is much inproved from the last time I was there. But I do think I want to got back in the next month to see the Omnimax show about Ancient Greece, and the New Da vinici exhibit.