Where No Man Has Gone Before

evil_little_dog and I headed to Indianapolis which the GPS insisted was only 140 miles which was impossible given it took 3 hours to get there but my confused GPS (and the weird snow squalls of amusing mistiness that weren't supposed to be there at all) was about the only hiccup.

I have to say I'm not sure why the Indianapolis Children's Museum was the one to pick up the Star Trek exhibit but I will say this is a pretty amazing Children's museum. All kids should be so lucky. It had a diversity of exhibits, some very child-oriented like Paws Patrol, others that are science based like a highly interactive Eygptian display and dito a dinosaur exhibit. The curators did an amazing job with that exhibit including getting on loan a mummified duckbill dinosaur so you can see the type of skin it had. Leonardo was pretty magnificiant. There was a dino I had never heard of, a new one, draconex hogwartinus or something like that that truly looks like a little dragon. They had another one with a fossilized brain tumor. Cool. Even cooler, we got to touch a real T-rex bone instead of just a cast.

The Star Trek exhibit was pretty damn fun, heavy on the clothing more than anthing. There was a booth where they splice you into the scene with Khan and you take the place of Shatner screaming his name. ELD has the video of that. We need to share it (might tweet that to Shatner). I was shocked at how heavy Uhura's uniform looked, velour maybe. I loved that they had almost all versions of the show represented from the original to the one streaming now and even the animated one. They even had an exhibit about loving someone who could change gender (the trill) with a picture of the first lesbian kiss on tv (though now some debate if that one counted) but the video parts didn't work...

They have a carousel on the fourth floor from 1917. It's fun with goats and giraffes.

We went to a schezwan place down here and it was tasty.