The Da Vinci, a Genius, exhibit has been at the OMSI for the past few months. Tom and I scored free tickets, and decided to go today. I learned a lot, I gotta admit, I was a little disappointed. I had very high expectations for the exhibit, and I guess they were just not fulfilled. Don't get me wrong, it was really well done. But, it just did not do justice to how ingenious Da Vinci truly was.
The about 2/3 of the exhibit was dedicated to Da Vinci's scintific contributions. It was full of some of his greatest, most outrageous, and most innovated inventions. I was shocked to find out how many things Da Vinci had dreamed up, for example: the bicycle, the car, the tank, the parachute, ball-bearings, double hulls in boats, the list goes on and on.... I wish I could show you some pictures, but photography was strictly forbidden. It was also full of sketches of the human body. Did you know that he would dig out freshly buried people and dissect them? Crazy, right? And did you know that his drawings are so actuate and detailed, that they became the standard for Grey's Anatomy books? Here is a picture I snuck of Owen doing a puzzle of the human skeleton.
The last half of the exhibit was dedicated to De Vinci's art, and most of that was of coarse the Mona Lisa. However, most of the Mona Lisa exhibit was about some 21st Century scientist who has studied the picture, and has created what he believes to be a the pure form of the picture, how De Vinci intended for us to see it. But I think that this is the way we were meant to see the Mona Lisa:
Anyway, after the De Vinci exhibit, we went to the Scince Play Ground there at the OMSI, and Owen loved it!! it is basically an indoor play ground full of educational toys. It was pretty awesome.
Owen and Me, peeking through some spy holes.
Owen climbing super cool Tumbling Pads.
Tonight was the traditional Pinning Ceremony at Western States Chiropractic College. What is this you asks? Well, it is basically a right of passage for Tenth Quarter students, that indicates the end of most of their class work, and the beginning of their Clinic work. Basically one step closer to being a doctor! 
