Titanic: The Unsinkable Ship {at the Franklin Institute}

Howdy lovelies! Have any of you missed me?

On Saturday, Bill and I took and adventure into the city with two of my friends, Allison and Joanna, to go to the Franklin Institute to see the museum and (most importantly) the Titanic Exhibit.

Driving into the city

When we first got to the Franklin Institute, the line to get tickets was so long, so we ended up going to TGIFridays for lunch...which of course I forgot to take pictures of. Instead, I have pictures of us waiting in line to buy our museum tickets and figuring out what we were going to do about our pups, since the tickets we had to the exhibit were for the later time. (Shout out to Christine for feeding and walking our pups on such short notice! You really saved the day ♥) 

[Left] Me and Bill, waiting in line. [Right] Me and Joanna trying to figure out our tickets.

The Franklin Air Show room was actually really cool. It had a lot of air-science related things (of course). In the picture of Bill and Allison, there's a wall of sparkly disks and various things pointing at them for you to play with. Giant drums, fan-like things, and noisemakers. The various sounds let out air and cause the sparkly things to move! It was pretty cool. And in the this picture, Bill is trying to inflate a balloon bigger than I did with a thing that was like an accordion bellow for fires.

[Right] The Original Wright 1911 Model B Flyer 

In the "Sir Isaac's Loft" portion of the museum, there were all sorts of cool things to do with...uh, Sir Isaac Newton. (I'm bad at science.) There was a giant contraption that looked like the game Mouse Trap which Bill, Allison, and Joanna told me the game Mouse Trap was based off of... So how about that! There were also these pulley seats that you see Joanna and I sitting in. We were racing to see who could get to the top first. (I won!) Sorry Joanna ;)

The pièce de résistance... The Titanic Exhibit! Unfortunately the only two pictures that I have of it are the one outside the entrance and a picture of the picture we got to take on the staircase "inside" the Titanic. This time it's not because I forgot! Going in, there's a sign with all the rules and "no photography" was one of them, sadly. 

It was really cool! Upon going in, they give you your "boarding pass" where you go through the exhibit and get to find out if you lived or not at the end. Joanna and Bill both died (Joanna, a second-class woman; Bill, Isador Strauss. Otherwise known as the old guy in the movie who dies with his wife in their bed). Allison and I, though, both lived, woo!

And of course, no trip is complete without pictures of me making ridiculous faces or poses. In the first picture, I have magnetic finger puppets of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. I'm not really sure what's going on in the second picture... Bill took that one. ;)

After all was said and done, we dropped Joanna and Allison off at home, came back to our house to take care of and see the pups, and then made a Chipotle run! No better way to end a night that with a burrito, right?

Thanks for reading, and sorry I've been gone. I'll try to get back to posting more regularly. xoxo