Spring Break

Due to different schedules at schools, it seems all of the kids have break at a different time. My niece, Megan (age 12), is here from Modesto this week. Unfortunately for her, Kristen and Laura have already had their breaks. Megan has a few friends over here, but they are in school, too. So the poor kid is stuck with us old folks.
Pat & I took her downtown yesterday. We rode the light rail, had lunch at Gordon Biersch, and walked over to the Tech Museum. The Tech is such a cool place. They have all kinds of hands-on exhibits. You can scan the bar code on your ticket into various displays, then log on to the computer at home and look at what you did at the museum. Megan did a thing where she put jellyfish DNA into something, then into a petri dish with agar. It has to incubate for 24 hours. She can log on today and look at the glow in the dark jellyfish cells she made. Pretty cool.
The highlight of the day (at least for me) was the movie Blue Planet in the Imax theater. Imax film is 70mm and runs vertically. They show the movies on the inside of this huge dome and the sound is incredible. This movie had a lot of footage of the earth shot from space. It was a very cool day.