Body Whirl

This weekend was fun because we had Ashley visit us the whole time. We picked her up Friday night and played Scrabble, and Saturday was spend at the Bodyworlds exhibit at the California Science Center. If you've never been to see it I HIGHLY reccomend going because it is facinating and a rare experience. I saw one of the exhibits last time it came around and was amazed. This show is themed around the heart, and there was a recorded loop of a heartbeat playing constantly in the background, which was creepy and cool. If you've never heard of it, it's a show real human bodies that have been through a Plastination proccess which preserves them for display. The bodies are opened so you can view the muscles, neves, veins and bones like you'd never imagine. While this is simply facinating to me in a scientific way, it also brings up tons of other questions and ideas. I was particularily struck by a pair of lungs sitting in a glass case of water. The large mass of them speckled white and pink and gray looked just like rocks in a tidal zone, covered with moss and shells and creatures, while all the feathery veins and blood vessels attached to them seemed like coral and fine fluffy seaweed. I stood there amazed as it all came together to me, how most of our body is made of water and on the inside we even look like we came from the sea. It made me happy.

After, we wandered in the Exposition Park Rose Garden and smelled the lovely flowers for a bit before heading back to Culver City for delicious pizza at Victor Jr.'s It was so cheezy and delicious, and after we all had to take naps at home. On Sunday, I got up and baked blueberry muffins from scratch, which came out so fluffy and delicious! However, I didn't kow our guest is not a blueberry eater, so most of them ended up on the side of her plate. She was happy though after we Metro-ed over to the Universal Citywalk so Ashley could fullfill her heart's desire to see The Ruins. I planned on camping out in a cafe with a book (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) but ended up joining them for blood and vines and yuckiness. Sometimes you just have to do things you don't want to to make someone else happy, so I squirmed my way though it with eyes shut half the time. It was not a scary movie, it was a bloodandguts gross-out. A first and last for me! We ended the day at Amoeba, then took her home to contemplate all the bodies and blood she got to see, educational and non.