One of the great things about guests is they give you an excuse to visit all the neat tourist places that you never get around to otherwise. With my parents providing a handy excuse we finally got to check out the McMillan Space Centre which shares a building with the Vancouver Museum and knows how to start things off right.
Thats right, a giant statue of a crab shooting water... perhaps the most awesome thing ever. They even have a plaque explaining it so that anyone that doesn't buy the notion of
"Giant metal crabs are fantastic" can have an artsy rationalization.
Once inside it was imperative that I expand my collection of pictures of
"Kathryn In Big Hats." There were also some neat displays about space, rockets, shuttle tiles and the like as well as a ride where you get to deliver science fiction madness to Mars, very much like the Star Tours ride at Disneyland.
The price of admission also includes planetarium shows which run every hour or so and are pretty fantastic. I also think that everyone can agree that in the robot uprising, the battle between the crab out front and the projector will be epic.
Thats right, a giant statue of a crab shooting water... perhaps the most awesome thing ever. They even have a plaque explaining it so that anyone that doesn't buy the notion of "Giant metal crabs are fantastic" can have an artsy rationalization.
Once inside it was imperative that I expand my collection of pictures of "Kathryn In Big Hats." There were also some neat displays about space, rockets, shuttle tiles and the like as well as a ride where you get to deliver science fiction madness to Mars, very much like the Star Tours ride at Disneyland.
The price of admission also includes planetarium shows which run every hour or so and are pretty fantastic. I also think that everyone can agree that in the robot uprising, the battle between the crab out front and the projector will be epic.
My money is on the projector. "Oh my god, it's full of stars!"
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