Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Bodies

M bought us tickets to Bodies the Exhibition. It was very cool. I was a little nervous about whether or not I was going to think it was gross and wasn't sure if we should eat dinner before or after we went. We opted to eat first for time constraint reasons and it wasn't a problem. It was very interesting. It had a slightly gross quality to it but the interesting-ness of it out-weighed any grossness.

We took about an hour to walk through and got to see all of our internal organs etc. M and I are both very glad that we don't smoke and encourage anyone who does to take this opportunity to quit. They explained that for each pack of cigarettes that you smoke, you lose 2.5 hours of your life expectancy. They had a large glass box for people to discard their packs and there were lots of them lying in the bottom.

We were amazed by our veins and arteries as well as some of the ways they displayed the bodies to really give you a 3-D view into how we are put together. We saw an appendix and joked that I don't have one!

If you have a chance to go, I recommend it.
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/