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Holiday is going nicely. Saturday was fairly quiet, but Sunday we got to journey to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
viktor_haag's place of VikCon 2, Son of VikCon. Cynra and I played a game of PowerGrid with Vik and some of his mates. We lost, but only barely. It was very not competitive.
There was a follow up game of Cosmic Encounter, which has changed significantly from when I was in the start club.
Today we took in the Titanic exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre, as well as seeing the Titanica flick in OmniMax. Man, I love seeing movies that way. It was a strange artifact of a previous time, since it was filmed onboard a Soviet science vessel. Very few indications remained of the period; just an errant hammer & sickle and a USSR tag here and there (or CCCP). And the ship's painter.
And one of the American guys looked a bit too much like George R. R. Martin. It was scary.
The exhibit was well done. Each person was given a boarding pass for a passenger, and then at the end you could check to see if they'd survived the sinking. The exhibit was composed of various artifacts from the wreck, reproductions of the boilers and rooms (first and third class) and a big piece of ice. And a gift shop. Cynra was enamoured of the idea of putting together a display for her library next year, so she got a few items (a program book, a copy of a first class menu, and some reproductions of second and third class plates). I plan to get myself a copy of Last Dinner on the Titanic, because I like stuff like that.
Dinner was at the Genghis Khan Mongolian BBQ, where someone recognized my Blue Sun t-shirt. Small world.
We had our full, since we hadn't really eaten much in about 24 hours; we'd each had a couple Eggos for breakfast, and then split a slice of Pizza Pizza for lunch. I am proud to report that I did not eat until I felt sick, although the flan was tempting.
viktor_haag's place of VikCon 2, Son of VikCon. Cynra and I played a game of PowerGrid with Vik and some of his mates. We lost, but only barely. It was very not competitive. There was a follow up game of Cosmic Encounter, which has changed significantly from when I was in the start club.
Today we took in the Titanic exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre, as well as seeing the Titanica flick in OmniMax. Man, I love seeing movies that way. It was a strange artifact of a previous time, since it was filmed onboard a Soviet science vessel. Very few indications remained of the period; just an errant hammer & sickle and a USSR tag here and there (or CCCP). And the ship's painter.
And one of the American guys looked a bit too much like George R. R. Martin. It was scary.
The exhibit was well done. Each person was given a boarding pass for a passenger, and then at the end you could check to see if they'd survived the sinking. The exhibit was composed of various artifacts from the wreck, reproductions of the boilers and rooms (first and third class) and a big piece of ice. And a gift shop. Cynra was enamoured of the idea of putting together a display for her library next year, so she got a few items (a program book, a copy of a first class menu, and some reproductions of second and third class plates). I plan to get myself a copy of Last Dinner on the Titanic, because I like stuff like that.
Dinner was at the Genghis Khan Mongolian BBQ, where someone recognized my Blue Sun t-shirt. Small world.
We had our full, since we hadn't really eaten much in about 24 hours; we'd each had a couple Eggos for breakfast, and then split a slice of Pizza Pizza for lunch. I am proud to report that I did not eat until I felt sick, although the flan was tempting.
