Is Anniversary #3 for us!
We went to the Titanic exhibit! If you’ve not gone, GO. It’s here until June 2nd and it’s totally worth $20! Nick found some discount coupons for $4 off each ticket somewhere at the Atllantic Station website.
They have a 15 ton piece of the ship and it’s HUGE. It really gives you the scale of the ship. It’s about 30-40 ft wide and about 15-20 high and it’s just part of ONE cabin in the second class section! I was hoping for more stuff, but I understand that there are some other exhibits out there besides this one. Don’t get me wrong, this one has a lot of pieces and takes 1.5 hours, but it still seemed like a relatively small number of things from a ship that huge. This exhibit is the only one with the huge chunks. There is a second chunk that’s “only” 3 tons. It was separated from the larger one after salvage. I loved the personal effects that survived.
There was a surprising number of paper objects that survived. Apparently being in tanned leather somehow kept them from deteriorating. There was a champagne bottle with champagne still in it. There was a perfume sample case that still had the samples in it – and you could smell them through holes in the display! They have an artificial iceberg you can touch, which is ingenious.
The best part is the ticket you get when you start. They match the passenger’s gender with you and give you a replica of the actual tickets used. It has the Class and sometimes the cabin # as well as biographical info about the passenger if there is any. You can find out if your passenger lived or died at the end of the tour. That was fun. Many more women than men made it, naturally, so my 2nd class cabin woman lived and Nick’s 2nd class cabin man did not. It was great fun.
Then we went to Six Feet Under for lunch and ate WAY too much! Note to self: never eat hushpuppies with beer! Can you say bloat? Argh!
Then we had a couple of hours to kill before our friends at Twinhead Theatre did there part of the 365 Plays show… or so we thought. The bulletin said 7pm, but it actually started at 6:30. SUCK. So, once again at loose ends, we hung out with Deisha and the theatre crowd at the Corner Pub for a bit.
We were still semi bored, but also tired, so we trundled home.
It’s 11:35 now and we’re off to beddie. We had a wonderful Anniversary! It’s always fun to hang out with my favourite person in the whole world! I’m a lucky girl to have Nick. We are far, far more together than apart. We’re a team in every sense and that’s why we’ll be together always, I think. :-)
Happy Anniversary, baby! I love you!