Looking down at the floor of the bathroom, I could see a little kid with red hair looking under the stall like little kids do. She wanted to know if anyone was in there. I happened to be in there to take quick tickle before heading off to the Museum of Natural History and Science. The Cincinnati Museum is right off of I-75. After leaving the bathroom that was filled with screaming kids chanting the word, “Mommy”; I looked at the time and quickly walked over to my designated museum.
When I first walked in, I felt kind of scared because I had a beige colored journal that had a picture of black glasses, a mustache and a bow tie. I was afraid people were going to judge me, but after a while I didn’t care because I had to do what had to do with or without people’s approval. The moment I walked in, I saw a medium sized glass box with four passenger pigeons in them. I felt really sad that they were in there because I love birds in general. According to the template with information, the passenger pigeons were very popular back in the day.
I slowly walked over to the next big thing and I by big, I mean big. This animal was white, very fury and had sharp teeth. I should have been slightly scared, but I was very impressed by how believable this polar bear was. I looked at it for a good 10 minutes just wondering what I would do if I was in Alaska and this polar beat was chasing after me. When I finally decided to walk away from it, there was a couple who was totally amazed by the display of the polar bears skull because the boyfriend said, “Shit, look at how big their skulls are!” I was laughing inside after that comment.
The Trading Post was the next thing that flooded my head like the water in Noah’s ark. As I was walking towards it, I remember being 15 years old and I had on a hideous red shirt and a little black book bag with throwback braids in my hair, smiling ear to ear posing next to the alligator skin that was slapped on the wall of the Trading Post area. It’s safe to say, those were my awkward years. Anyway, I glided my hand on the flat as a pancake alligator skin, I felt calm, and it was kind of therapeutic to me even though its skin was rough. I looked at the facts and history that was displayed in bright pink and green neon colors. To my surprise the Trading Post opened June of 2000. After processing that info, I feel old. The Cincinnati Museum was a Union Terminal at first and it opened in 1933. So, I was walking into a lot of history.
I ran across a bambi look alike that was staring at me with its right eye when I entered the forest setting where this statue resides. I didn’t find this part of the museum that interesting so I decided to keep it moving by finding a new area to look at. I slowly walked down the ramp to the next part. This section was as dark as night and at one time I thought it was closed. I’m not going to lie I felt spooked out, but decided to go in by myself anyway. Staring at the American Indian beaded pouches gave me another flashback of how badly I wanted a pouch like that when I was little. The beads on the pouches were so colorful and cute. The pouch from the North American Plains caught my eye because it had a blue eagle on it.
Just looking at the pouches made me realize the Indians had a lot of creativity back in the day. About 5 minutes later, other people started to walk inside the section where I was at. As they walked in, I slowly walked across the pathway to see a statue of the snowy owl. It was white and it looked like the size of a medium sized cat. I was amazed by how real this own looked. The little kid with the Ninja Turtle shirt on was just as amazed as I was. He yelled out to his dad that he saw the Harry Potter Owl.
Kissing noises was like background music as I rubbed my hand across the rock crystal quartz. The noise came from the lovely couple behind me. Anyway, I continued to touch the rock crystal quartz. It was so beautiful, big and clear. I liked how smooth it was. The stomping of feet rushed towards me like a stampede. Since I didn’t look up I was kind of caught off guard by the sound, but not to worry, it was just two little boys who looked at the crystal quartz as well. After they had their turn at rubbing the crystal, one of the little boys yelled, “It’s worth millions!”
I continued to walk down the dark path until I saw the light as I entered the space section of the walkway. I thought I was far ahead of the kissing couple I just saw, but to my surprise they were right behind me. For O2 press, 5380-6380. Those were the numbers on the amazing Neil Armstrong spacesuit. I was kind of fearful when I was reading it because I imagined myself in space and having to push those numbers for oxygen. It was amazing how big it was with the American flag stamped on right side of his suit. My eyes sparkled with amazement when I saw the planets in the glass fixture placed on the wall. One planet in particular, Neptune, looked just like a blue lollipop.
Big bunny ears with crystals inside it. That’s what this amethyst geode looked like. It also looked like someone cut some part of his right ear off, one ear longer than the other, kind of like how a puppy looks when one of its ears are flopped over. I came to the conclusion, it looked like someone decided to yank the ears off of a gigantic bunny and then put it on display for everyone to see at this museum.
Off to the ice age part. I was super excited to go in, but I immediately lost interest because of how drab it looked in the first section of the ice age area. So, I decided to go to the more lively part, which was the glacier area. I was blown away at how real these glaciers looked as I slowly walked inside of them. The rocks shifted under my feet as I walked into the glacier. I felt a little scared walking under them considering the fact that I was by myself. I looked behind me hoping no one was near me because I was flipping out. I felt as if I was a part of the Scooby-Doo gang where everyone decides to split up to solve a mystery. I also felt light headed and didn’t know it was the lack of food I had or me just being in the moment.
Finally, I was out of the glacier part and into the part where there were statues of fake animals like wolves. I took a look at the fake brown beaver whose butt was halfway into the water. I think they tried to make the beaver look like it was coming out of the water, but to me it looked like it was peeing in it. I found it very funny. I looked at the time, and the museum was about to close. I slowly walked to the exit where the elevator was waiting for me. Once I got off of the elevator, I headed right to the vitamin water machine because I was extremely thirsty. I pushed the button for the one I wanted and out came the one that looked like it had a bubble gum pink color to it. I felt so refreshed after drinking it. When I was walking towards the exit out of the museum, I started to reflect on my visit. I looked up to the ceiling to see all of the artwork they have on there. I felt happy that I got to after eight years of not having time to go. It was so quiet when I was trying to leave, but to my surprised there were still people in there because I heard shoes hitting the pavement. I looked back to see a ton of people leaving the Omnimax theater racing towards walking towards the exit without a care in the world. They looked like people that were happy to go. In fact, I was happy to be able to stop and take a look at some interesting things for a change.
