Medulla Oblongata

Ever wonder what your insides look like? Ever wonder about the mysteries of the human body? Bored with biology text books and diagrams? Well, then Bodies....The Exhibition just might be for you. Yesterday, finally I made the trek to the South Street Seaport to check it out. It was pretty interesting. Especially since all of the exhibits showcase real human subjects.(talk about donating your body to science huh?) A process known as polymer preservation was used on the cadavers to prevent decay. Some of the specimens are posed participating in various activities like playing basketball to showcase the body in motion. There are in total nine (damn number nine always messing with my ka-tet, there's also an exhibit in "Turtle Bay" exploration park in California, coincidence? hmm?) galleries to explore. Visitors begin in the skeletal room, and in each successive room (muscular, digestive etc) another layer is added to the body. There are various organs dissected. My favorite part of the exhibit though, had to be the arteries and veins, dyed red and blue without the rest of the body. It was weird and also very fascinating to see how intricate and delicate (and a bit alien looking without the rest of the organs) they are.
I opted for the non-tour ticket, and it took me just under an hour to navigate my way through. I'm sure as much as I took in, there was plenty that unintentionally went overlooked. Upon exiting the exhibit, Morgan Freeman appeared out of nowhere and kindly reminded me to "cross that off your bucket list little girl.", which I thought was a little odd, but whatever, I mean I've always been of the mind that when Mr.Freeman speaks, you listen, and so cross it off I did. It was very cool. I'm very glad I finally got to see it, and I feel it was a perfect start to my vacation from the call center (which in all truth being off for a week is perfection in and off itself)
I also saw The Ruins and my review? Save your money for something more enlightening, like crack. I mean the movie tried, it really did to be a horror film, and so I felt bad not enjoying it so much. Maybe if I read the book I'd have had a better understanding about exactly what was going on at those wacky ruins. Or, why there was a tribe of people who lived at the base of aforementioned wacky ruins in fear, quarantining all those stupid Americans who dared try to find them. It wasn't gory. The vines coming to life were stupid. They didn't even explore the ruins, except for the stupid well the stupid German fell down. I did learn an invaluable lesson however. Which is, if you ever meet a German at your resort while on vacation don't listen to his or her "good idea", it will lead to inexplicable ends. The highlight definitely had to be finally seeing the Dark Knight and Iron man trailers on the big screen. They somehow seemed infinitely better and again have me losing patience for their releases. Or maybe the highlight was when the movie started a little later then scheduled and an older gentleman in the audience started frantically intoning "Do you work here? Does anyone work here? Why isn't the movie starting? Look who runs this place! *turns and faces the projection booth shaking fist* What are you smoking your crack pipe up there?" And in perfect NY fashion I merely sunk into my over-sized theater chair and dug into my over-sized bucket of popcorn thinking :"hmm actually, I think you got the show started already sir." I love this city!