Dream Big...: Off to Manchester!

Yesterday morning, we got up at an ungodly hour for a Saturday and took a coach bus to Manchester. There were five of us, Cory, Katie, Laura, Travis and I. Before arriving, we had decided we wanted to visit the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and a few other places.

Let me tell you, MOSI was amazing! I felt like a giant nerd, but it was so great. They had a bunch of stuff about Joule, Dalton, Bragg and all of those crazy old science nerds who basically discovered half of what we know now. It was so much fun...for me at least. The others in the group enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as I did. I caught myself smiling as I was reading the information about Joule's calorimeter. Everyone else had walked on and I was just standing there smiling like a geek. It was great!

After I managed to pull myself away from that, we checked out a few other things in the science museum and then moved on. We went to the Manchester Gallery. It was a really nice gallery with a lot of nice work. As you can probably tell by the lack of '!'s here, art isn't exactly my cup of tea. I can appreciate it, but I would have much rather been looking at pictures of Lawrence Bragg's x-ray crystallograms (at least I think that's what they're called) and Joule's calorimeter. I'm just putting that out there. Anyways, it was quite nice. If I had more time in either place, it would've been better.

Once we finished up at the gallery, we walked towards Picadilly Gardens which is just the center square of the city essentially. Everyone else wanted to go inside where it was warm so they went into a nearby store. I stayed out to check out the local stuff. They had a market set up in the square and I bought some "American muffins" and some jewelry from one of the local fair-trade businesses that had a booth set up. It was pretty cool and I hope to go back again, maybe when it's a bit warmer.

All-in-all it was an awesome day. It was nice to get out and have some fun. Hopefully I'll be able to do some more traveling in the weeks to come and see even more fun stuff!!

When I saw this, I knew I was going to like Manchester. =)