Best and Worst

One of the best parts of the winter break for me was when my friend Ginny came to Houston to spend a couple days with me. Besides just hanging out at my house, we decided to go to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, which is way cool by the way. The Houston Museum has completely renovated the hall of paleontology, so now all the dinosaurs are in this really cool room size might set up like a timeline moving you throughout history from the time of the trilobites to modern man. (Plus, they gave the dinosaurs names! Stan the T-Rex is my favorite) The museum also has a rather extensive Egyptian exhibit which I always enjoy. One of the temporary exhibits was called Sharks! where I learned a Bit about the sharks that swim in the Gulf of Mexico as well as some major research projects various scientists and organizations are involved in currently. Ginny and the other friends that we met at the museum also got to pet small sharks in tanks.

While we were at the museum, we also went to the butterfly exhibit. For those of you not from Houston or Houstonians who have yet to visit the museum (shame on you! You need to go!), the butterfly exhibit is this huge atrium that has a massive waterfall and is designed like the rain forest. It stays the same temperature year-round (which is great because it was freezing outside when we went, but more on that later) and is filled with butterflies from many different species as well as a pretty chill iguana and beautiful flowers and plants. Attached to the atrium, on the second level, is a massive insect display where all different kinds of bugs species are in glass cages throughout the room (it was kind of disturbing especially the jumbo bugs that I told Ginny that I would probably sacrifice her and run away if one attacked us).

Lastly, while Ginny and I were at the museum, we decided to see Night at the Museum 3. We both really liked the movie, but thought the ending was a really sad (we didn’t care that they put a somewhat happy reunion on the end. It didn’t matter; it was still sad).

The worst part of my winter break was the freezing cold weather. Because the weather was so cold and rainy and disgusting, Ginny and I didn’t get to go to the zoo. We were really bummed out that we didn’t get to go because we were both looking forward to feeding the giraffes and seeing the new baby giraffe. I even got Ginny a giraffe for Christmas because after seeing a picture of the baby giraffe, she decided she wanted a giraffe for Christmas. So, genius that I am, I adopted a giraffe via the World Wildlife Fund (yes, I know it’s really just donating money for a piece of paper) and got a Build a Bear giraffe named GG (for Ginny’s giraffe).