17 Weeks 2 Days: Who Are You... Ou, ou... Ou, ou.

I really wanna know...

We met up with our good friend Gainen and his two sons, Caden and Jake (and no one else... Heather) at the OMSI so we could check out the CSI exhibit. Unfortunately, it was supposed to be for ages 12 and up, but the lady working the door said that one of the sections was more kid friendly so we went through that one. Basically there are three crime scenes and you have to go through and collect evidence and solve the crime. The one we went through was just bones found out in the desert, so you collect trace evidences at the scene. The only lame part was that you don't REALLY collect evidence, you just look at a model of the scene and you are blocked off from actually going in the scene. But then you go around to all these lab computers to inspect the evidence that you "collected". It was fun. Then we went around and played with all the science exhibits and let the boys play with the science stuff. Then Gainen took the kids to the play area while Krystal and I went through one more CSI crime scene. It was basically the same and was starting to get crowded so there was more waiting to use the lab computers. This scene was of a car that crashed through a living room, but the guy in the driver's seats injuries didn't seem to match with crashing a car. It was interesting. Then we got some food at the OMSI Cafe which a little bit more expensive that if we had gone somewhere else, but it was convenient since the OMSI is in an area of Portland that has businesses without really good parking.

The CSI exhibit made me miss watching CSI. Krystal and I used to rent the DVD's and just watch entire season's over a weekend. Back in our tiny studio apartment in California that cost almost as much in rent than our 2 bedroom house does now. Anyway, Maybe we can get the old first season and watch it for nostalgia's sake. We can watch it with the baby, because I don't really care about our kid seeing death. I know a lot of people tend to shield their kid from dead, most of the time they end up lying to their kid to shield it from death, but the lying seems just as bad. Why is death such a terrible thing? We're all going to die. It's a natural part of life. I guess those same people spend a lot of time shield their kids from sex or nudity as well. I just don't get it. It's all natural. It's all stuff that is much more accepted in European countries and turns out much more open minded, mature children. That's my opinion. You can't shield your kids from things and then expect them to be mature and understanding of them later on.