Behold! The museum bathroom!
Inside a ship...
The first ever washing machine...
And the outside of a fighter jet...
And cars and cars and cars and cars and cars!
It was awesome. The museum was divided up into four buildings with a type of transport in each one. The buildings were located on each corner of a large courtyard (filled with full size cars, trucks, airplanes, tractors, tanks, jets, howitzers, ect. Most of which you could get in to) and inside each building was a type of transportation (trains, boats, aiplanes, and cars).
In the order of visitation:
1. trains. A narrated tour/ride on the building of one of the longest Swiss train tunnel (mannequins + cheesy special effects). Several accessible train engines and cars parked inside. Lots of interactive/educational activity centers.
2. Cars. B**t load of cars. Really nice cars. Plus of course the interactive/educational activity centers (from now on I'll call them Interedactcens for simplicity sake). But mostly cars! So many really nice fancy cars! I spent a lot of time in here.
Lunch. Meat sandwiches out by the lake next to the parking lot.
3. Space/airplanes. Lots of levels and hung from the roof airplanes. A few nifty space type model things up on one level. Tons of Interedactcens here.
4. Boats. They had a full size ferry and a riverboat of some sort outside so most of the inside was dedicated to models. Shelves and shelves of model boats (and of course the now familier Interedactcens)
I don't know the kid in the background of the first picture. We were trying to get out of a sealed trap door in the hull of a ferry in the second picture. The third picture is actually and old airplane, and Schyler is actually standing on a ladder behind the jet in the fourth picture.
ReplyDeleteAlthough there was a jet you could really get in... but there was a line and we didn't want to wait. Although the other three did get into line... I didn't want to wait so I went and looked at an airport firetruck with Tivoli. We were back in ten seconds and by that time the other three had gone... once again demonstrating my separate groups without cell phone theory.
ReplyDeleteThen there was an awesome merry-go-round type thing... only so much better. It was like the flat round top to the merry-go-round only without all the bars... and apparently it was balanced on a ball or something... so it was much more epic-er than a merry-go-round. (for those of you at home still having trouble picturing this thing... imagine a cd on a marble... only big). We got it going in circles dangerously fast... I'm sure everyone was thinking... "Ah c**p... more Americans on that thing"
ReplyDeleteOnly in Swiss... or... chinese... there were a lot of Asians at the museum...
ReplyDeleteHey Wesley! I am still loving your blog! It makes me laugh. I am writing this while trying to hold a thermometer in my mouth. Not fun. Yeah I got sick. My throat is sore but getting better. I hope you have a great time where ever you are going next. Love you! Love, Allison
ReplyDeleteP.S I finally got a desk I wanted!
Sweet! Not the sick part, but the desk. You've been wanting one forever. Did you get it at a garage sale? How does your room have room? You haven't moved into my room have you?
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