Vacation Day Three: The Museums

Today was Museum Day. We started at the Ben Franklin Institute. We arrived with a zillion school groups, but we still managed to have fun. We started in their brand-spanking new Star Trek exhibit, which was really cool. They had memorabilia from all the Star Trek movies and shows. No photos allowed, but they took pictures of us on the bridge, in the captain's chair, etc, and then gladly sold them to us. The rest of the museum was equally cool - pendulums, flight experiments, a giant human heart - very cool stuff. We spent most of the day there. After the Institute, we went to the Academy of Natural Sciences, which had lots of dinosaur stuff. After dinner, we went back to the Ben Franklin to see the new Star Trek movie on the IMAX screen. It was a domed screen and the movie played almost directly overhead. If I hadn't seen the movie before, I could not have kept up with it. But it was cool.