Friday, August 18, 2006

Houston Museum of natural Science

Kyle and I went to Houston yesterday on our day off. We made a special day trip to the HMNS for the Body Worlds 3 exhibit. It was a blast! First of all I love natural history museums. That is one of the highlights of my vacation to Europe last year. We went to the natural history museum in Milan. It was wonderful.

Anyways back to Houston. Tons of fun. I love rocks. They are amazing.

Then there was the exhibit. Wow, take your breath away. Slices of different people's brains. Slices of lungs. They have everything. Every organ, every joint, every tube in your body is on display, both single pieces in a glass case and assembled on a body. They have the normal organs then they have the disfigured, cancer riddled, clogged, scarred, arthritic any type of disfunction you can think of next to it. They also had a cross section of lungs healthy and smokers. Literally there was deposits of tar and soot. Smoking turns you lungs black, BLACK. It doesn't really deter me because well who will see them. Sort of like your period panties no one is going to see them why bother?

P.S. Just in case you were wondering....our muscles look just like brisket. It looked like pork slow cooked all day right before you pull it with a fork. I swear to god.

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