May the force stay with me…

This is the first time I’ve been excited to blog in several days.

I don’t know that I have all that much to say, other than I am just so excited to have a few minutes to say it! I think I’ll start by discussing what my beautiful husband and I did yesterday!

We went to the Star Wars exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and Natural History! We arrived, and had to get in the 40 minute or so line just to get tickets. We got to the ticket counter at about 1:05 ish, and said we’d like tickets to see the exhibit and the planetarium show. We were told that the earliest tickets available for the Star Wars exhibit were for the 3:00 entry time (they had entry every 15 minutes!). Needless to say, there were so many people there. So we decided to see the planetarium show first at 1:30.

It completely sucked.

I am a huge fan of the planetarium, but this was essentially an incredibly lame video projected on the walls of the dome. there was about 3 minutes of actually looking at stars. Booooo.

So, we were let out of the planetarium show at 1:55, with just over an hour to spare before being admitted into the Star Wars exhibit. We mulled around a bit in the other part of the museum (there is only 1 other part.) and it had a couple of neat artifacts. We made our way to the line to the exhibit at around 2:35 or so.

It was THERE that I met my very first Stormtrooper!

Once we made it into the exhibit, it really was quite awesome. Sure there were ridiculous amounts of people, annoying children, and inconsiderate adults, but if you could manage to get in front of one of the cases for a few seconds, it was more than worth it. The models were fantastic. I never could have imagined the scale of things like the X-wing or the Millennium Falcon:

All in all, it was a fantastic experience. I was too chicken to take my camera, these pics were taken with Dmac’s camera phone. I do promise, however, to break her out of her shell, and really be willing to let her see the world in the near future.

Tomorrow morning, I go back to inservice. I’m sure I will find the time to write some sort of report on that asap.

(oh, and a few more pics of the Star Wars artifacts can be found at my flickr stream!)