Day 23- May 21st

Today we went as a class to the Sebastiao Salgado Genesis photography exhibit at the Museum of Natural History after class. It was so cool!!! These pictures were absolutely beautful and had everything from the Amazon to the Arctic. Then my home boy Georgie hooked Kassidy, Kenzie and I up with tickets to the museum's Spirit Collection Tour. 

We weren't entirely sure what it acutally was, but we had heard something about a giant squid and closed to the public and we were in. As we started asking workers where the tour was, we felt more and more privilaged. They would all say, "You know you need to book these tickets in advance?" (Georgie had gotten them two hours before hand for us) "You know this is very exclusive"... We felt pretty cool. There were only three other guys on the tour and our exlusive guide, Allister, who studied Biology and speicializes in mollusks. 

During the tour we got to see the laboratories (turns out the museum was construted to be a giant laboratory and research center, not an attraction), the collection rooms (saw all kinds of stuff in funky little jars), and the "We Don't Have Jars Big Enough to Fit This Stuff Into So We Put Them In Giant Tanks" room. It was incredible. We walked into this huge room and saw huge jars lining the walls with palatapi, foxes, giant fish, sharks..., about 16 3x6 ft steel tanks that you can't see through, and ,  a giant tank (a bit longer than a double decker bus) with the giant squid!!!! This thing was so freaky and awesome. It was abosultely massive, and to think aobut it swimming around in the deep blue somewhere kind of gives me the willies. We asked Allister what was in the steel tanks and he said that they had orangoutangs, sharks, shetlin  poines, and who knows what elese. When we asked if we could see inside one of them he said that it takes too long to get the lids off so we wouldn't be able to... well right as we were taking picitures with the squid, a man walked in with a giant cart and starts taking lids off the tanks!!! He took off one and told us about all the funky things that were inside of it (the giant head of a stergon [the main suspect for the locness monster]), a shark bent into the shape of a suitcase (since that what the man who donated it brought it in), giant stingrays, and tuna. So sweet!!! Then for the end of the tour Allister took us to a special part of the wall where there appeared to be just normal bottled fish and such. But we took a look at the label and they were samples from the Beagle expidition... Charles Darwin's orginal expidition!!!!!!!!!!! It was incredible!!!! Major shout out to Georgie for letting us mooch off of him!!! 

After all that exictement I came home for my last night of kitchen duty, went to fro yo with Paige, and had a giant girls night in room 3.