(model of the Titanic at the very beginning of the exhibit)
Monday Oct 29th
Sunny Skies w/high temp of 62 degrees
Today got started quite early for me as L.B. & I went out to the neighborhood park for some serious jogging with her & I afterwards heading back home with her getting some much needed breakfast down her & me getting ready for my big day:
Seeing the Titanic artifacts @ the Ft Worth Science and history museum.
And with a quick hug to LB, I was off in my car and to Cowtown.
No wait.........
that was in my car WITH a Subway sandwhich, Dr Pepper and some CC cookies while DRIVING TO Cowtown.
(love their Subs).
ANYWHO -
After about an hour, I rolled on up to the place and gave the admissions person my ticket. Seeing what I saw (the Titantic picture in posting #11) really caught my eye as I knew I would be in for a treat.
As I entered the exhibit, I was handed this:
(a boarding pass with a passenger's name on it)
As my name for the day was Mr. Thomas Andrews; which I recognized immediatly as one of the many who didn't make it that fatefull night.
From the Digda know file:
that Guests staying on the Titanic used skeleton stateroom cabin keys -
(hallway representation of the 1st class section of the ship)
....just imagine how much money it would have taken to have had use of one of its 1st class cabins:
ABOUT THE ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY:
Whereas it was very insightfull to see them, it was also just a little bit creepy to know that what I was looking at came from people who met their demise in a very very awful way.
But.....
It was also fun to see:
1) Gold standard issued U.S. currency
2) playing cards from that era.
3) a boulder hat
4) reading glasses
5) a pair of p.j. s.
6) sheet music
7) a lot from the ship itself; like some of the components from the watertight doors.
8) one of the ship's horns.
All in all, it was truely amazing to see all that they brought up from the ocean floor. I really enjoyed seeing this exhibit as it really brought home for me what I experienced on my "Titanic Walk" while in Queenstown Ireland last year:
It isn't like what you see in "the movie" over in Ireland.
For starters, if you were anyone other that 1st class, you had to wait outside to purchase your ship ticket.
and once through that process, you walked down a gangway (now in ruins) that lead to a tender that took you across the inland to where they picked up mail and from there, the tender took to to the entrance of the inland to the waiting "Ship of Dreams."
Glad I read the book, "Titanic Survivor," by Violett Jessup before I saw the exhibit.
Check out the difference here with a representation of what the 3rd class passenger cabin looked like:
ANYWHO -
Afterwards, I decided to go check out the Imax movie -
Pretty cool movie I say, even for it being filmed in the late 1990's!!
Soon, I began to have a pretty bad case of the munchies
The answer???
BRICK OVEN PIZZA!!
So I boogied on over to INZO's for a bit and had some FAB chese sticks for an apetizer:
(and wine)
Who knew I would really enjoy thin crust pizza but this one ROCKED!!
fresh! Tasted homemade - YUM!!!!
Their dessert hit the spot of what was really a fun fun fun day for me:
I took home half of the pizza and half of the desert with me and hit that cruise control while driving back home; listening all the while to my San Francisco burned cd of music and the fresh smell of some awsome pizza.
WHAT MUSIC YOU SAY?????
Details coming up.
UP NEXT:
Doing the double digit dance and beginning to break out my suicase and putting some things in it, etc.
**** T-MINUS 127 MORE DAYS ****
P.S. Since I am a self-confessed 'foodie,' Now do you see why I had fun that am jogging??
T.T.F.N.