Fun stuff on a Friday
Jan. 21st, 2006 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerSince we're on the New Mexico Outdoors (gay social group) mailing list, we figured the outing to the Explora! Center last night would be a fun thing, and it was! Several times a year, Explora! has an adults-only night, so you don't have to deal with the hordes of screaming, sugar-frenetic, non-adult-conscious hordes that are normally there during the day.
A huge number number of the 250+ interactive displays seems geared more to teens and adults than younger children. Light, sound, touch, memory, anything that puzzles the younger mind and many things you haven't thought about were there. There was even a great environmentally-conscious display of Albuquerque geology and water history, with large air photos of Albuquerque from 1935, 1975, and 2002 showing the urban sprawl of a town of 35,000 to nearly 700,000 and our LIMITED aquifer resources in the scheme of things.
Lots of guys we have seen around were there, as well as Kris and Turtle-Bear showing.
My brother Bruce is the lead carpenter at a place just like this in Shreveport, the SciPort. They're in the midst of a major expansion and remodel, so I'm sure it'll be very similar when the dust has settled there.
Fun to be a kid full of wonder again for a couple of hours!
A huge number number of the 250+ interactive displays seems geared more to teens and adults than younger children. Light, sound, touch, memory, anything that puzzles the younger mind and many things you haven't thought about were there. There was even a great environmentally-conscious display of Albuquerque geology and water history, with large air photos of Albuquerque from 1935, 1975, and 2002 showing the urban sprawl of a town of 35,000 to nearly 700,000 and our LIMITED aquifer resources in the scheme of things.
Lots of guys we have seen around were there, as well as Kris and Turtle-Bear showing.
My brother Bruce is the lead carpenter at a place just like this in Shreveport, the SciPort. They're in the midst of a major expansion and remodel, so I'm sure it'll be very similar when the dust has settled there.
Fun to be a kid full of wonder again for a couple of hours!
