On February 3rd, I will have been married for five years to Craig Matthew Saunders, who is my very favorite person in the world. Every year, I love him more!
Because we were going to be busy around our actual anniversary, we celebrated it this weekend. Craig said he wanted to plan something for us, so all I knew was that we were going to leave our apartment on Saturday morning at nine o'clock. He drove me to Portland to take me to OMSI! I love OMSI!!
At OMSI, we watched a planetarium show about black holes. I love black holes!
Then we walked through their current main exhibit, Body Worlds and the Brain. It was super awesome! The artist who created the pieces we saw uses a technique called plastination, which is using a real body or body parts and replacing all the bodily fluids with plastic. So he has all these bodies in different poses with different parts pulled away or cut into interesting shapes so you can see all the muscles and organs and bones and nerves from all different angles. He posed some of the bodies in different kinds of sports moves, so he had a ballerina, a soccer player, a yoga woman, two ice skaters, a baseball player, etc. So you could really see how each of those actions uses the muscles. And then he had other pieces that were much more artistic, like sliced up in strange ways or with different pieces sticking out so you could see the insides. The coolest one, though, had to be the giraffe. It was huge!!!! If you are interested in looking at muscles and bones and brains, you should totally check out this exhibit!
After we walked through all the dead bodies, we watched an IMAX show about flying dinosaurs. I love dinosaurs! And it was presented by our favorite nature show guy, David Attenborough. Craig and I both love David Atteborough! He does the best nature shows.
So OMSI was awesome! I'm so glad my wonderful husband thought of that for our anniversary. It was special and memorable, and we had a wonderful time spending the whole day together!
