body worlds

The "Body Worlds" exhibit is winding down at the Milwaukee Public Museum after about 8,000 folks have wondered through the halls checking things out. As the end date of June 1 approaches, the museum has announced that it will stay open for 63 hours straight to wrap up the exhibit.

Back in March, Kirsten and I went through the exhibit along with my sister Gina and her husband Chris. I joked in that post that we were just going to look at some dead bodies, but it really was a neat thing to see and I'd highly recommend it to anyone. Still to this day I can't get my mind around the fact that we were seeing real people on display. I don't know if it's the process they use to preserve the bodies (plastination) or the fact that my puny mind won't believe it.

Anyway, for those who haven't been there yet, there are different areas throughout the exhibit that deal with different systems of the body like nervous, circulatory, reproductive, etc. Pretty neat stuff. There was also a separate room with a pregnant woman, embryos and fetuses (feti?) at different stages. Very interesting especially since one of the embryos was at the same stage as our little one was at the time. 8 weeks if I recall correctly. Anyway, it was interesting that it was in a separate room as opposed to all the other parts of the exhibit. I guess that may touch a nerve with some people.

So time is running out. Get there if you can. It is a fantastic exhibit and I guarantee you'll learn a lot. Enjoy!

been a while

Back by (semi) popular demand is the blog! I hope you're as excited about it as I am, which doesn't say much I guess. Talk about a funk. I just had nothing for you. This winter is bull shit and it is bringing me down. I can't believe we got 10 more inches yesterday. I was actually angry about it all day. That's a first for me. Usually it's just an annoyance which is part of the deal when you live in Wisconsin, but enough is enough. According to the local newspaper, it's now the 2nd snowiest winter in Milwaukee history. I say that ranking is good enough. Let's not go for #1.

Today my sister Gina and her husband Chris (and dog Sophie) are coming down to visit. We're heading over to the Body Worlds exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum. I haven't heard much about it except that it's a bunch of dead people and it's a wildly popular exhibit. It's not exactly up my ally but I'll give it a shot. My lovely wife is of course very excited being a nurse and all. My motto is "I'll try anything twice" so we'll see what this has to offer. I'm guessing that you can't take pictures inside but I'll be sure to write up something about the experience.

Tomorrow morning we'll head to Easter mass which we'll have to get to really early since between that and Christmas, everyone that doesn't go to church all year goes on those two days. Why is that? I don't know if I ever heard a good reason for that. If you don't go all year, why go on those two days? Just seems strange to me. Anyway, after that we're heading over for brunch at Cafe Hollander which should be good. I dig that place for breakfast. I always get the Americana (2 eggs, ham, potatoes). Delicious.

That's all for now, but I promise it won't be 2 more months until the next time. It's funny how you just assume no one reads this and then I see friends and they're like "what happened to the blog?" Lesson learned...leave comments so I know you care. :)