Friday, March 2, 2012

Titanic

In honor of  (that doesn't quite sound right :/ ) the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and, I'll admit it, because of a great discount :), the girls and I recently visited the Titanic museum.

From the time of spotting the iceburg, the crew had only 37 seconds before impact.
A video game/simulator let us try to change course quickly enough to miss it.
We were unsuccessful.

Cameras weren't allowed inside, but we took a few pics outside.
The employees were great, really bringing the stories to life.
Also, a crew from USA Today was there, working on a story, so we got to follow them around a bit and listen to all of the cool things they were learning! (Watch for the story in April :).

 The girls next to a replica anchor.  Titanic's center anchor weighed over 16 tons!!!!!!!
 A side note, in case anyone is interested - Keegan was displeased I told her to wear something, "not ratty."  Haha.  According to her, her spring style is going to be "ratty t-shirts and sports shorts." I generally don't make an issue of clothes, but am not thrilled by this development :/.
 We learned some interesting facts and stories and saw a life jacket (worn by John Jacob Astor's young wife) valued at over a million dollars.  Wow!
Such a tragedy, that also brought out so many acts of heroism. 
Neat opportunity for us to learn :).

1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much for posting about your visit to the Titanic. I was going to take the kids there, but it would have cost us quite a bit. It looks like you had a lot of fun and learned a lot.

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