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Rice Museum I love you and I'm joking about the window/staff thing (mostly) For best results, listen with the sound on (So you can hear my dubious voice-over).

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Iceland 2019

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Community support surges after theft from Radisson teen’s rock museum

The initial shock of the robbery dampened Tyreman’s spirits on the future of the museum, but the uncertainty evaporated when he started getting calls and emails from all over North America.

“I’ve had nonstop emails since yesterday,” Tyreman said on Tuesday, noting all the attention has been slightly overwhelming but he’s thankful so many people are supporting his museum.

People from as far away as New Mexico have contacted him to send specimens from their own collections. The Royal Saskatchewan Museum has also offered to donate a variety of its duplicates. He also managed to raise more than $7,000 in a single day through his GoFundMe page.

“I’m going to use it to get replacement pieces and hopefully use it to one day buy the building,” he said.

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Rice NW Museum of Rocks & Minerals, Oregon, 1-5-20

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Just got back from a long few hours of exploration! I went to a thrift shop and bought a really cute dress and a belt that actually fit me(I’m a very small person :,) ) and this cool iPad case I hope will fit my iPad!

It’s of Starry Night and I love art as I have joined Artfight this year so I felt it would be fitting but I don’t have my iPad with me so all I can do is hope 💗 though it was only a $1 so no skin off of my back if not :)

ALSO!! Rock museum! I was taken there when I was 5 and 10 or so and now I’m visiting again! Or visited—I’ve left by now. The gift shop was surprisingly well priced—gems and stuff around the size of your thumb were $3-5 and the bigger common minerals were $8 at most.

REALLY big sale going on for lots of it, I almost got some Holy Blue Agate for $24 instead of $48 but decided against it and bought some blind tumbled rock bags ($5 each) and a little green stone ($7 at half off) for $17 total instead! Like I said, really cheap!

I’m not a geologist or a historian but I do like pretty rocks and I’ve watched an anime called Ruri Rocks(which I highly recommend!! It’s a slice of life) so I know about minerals and stuff somewhat. (Much like Ruri haha) pls pls pls go watch it it’s the sweetest anime and really the only thing I’d have to say about it negatively is the fact that the geologist major student has a big chest but she’s an adult and there’s no service otherwise whatsoever!

The staff were really sweet to us and recommended sites to go rock hunting on our own or a group online you could join to hopefully go hunting at mines for cheaper and the like! One even helped me pick out a Moroccan Geode to break in half( it might have been the geologist or paleontologist) they were so kind!

I got both a cavern and a side with a bit of dog teeth so I basically got a really good geode! :)

Here’s some pictures! I mainly took pictures of the gems and minerals :) (this is a small fraction of what I took of the rocks i totally LOL)

Obligatory deer mention—that’s just my cousin don’t mind him. He don’t bite…much.

While we were there this other family brought in a dinosaur bone or something cuz the workers were talking about it so I hope those people make good money off of whatever they actually found :)

And did you know? Thescelosaurs had very specifically shaped head cavities (like/resembling ears if I remember what they said correctly) made specifically to hear tyrannosaurus rexes sound frequencies? Something that same geologist/paleontologist from above told be about from a recent study from 2023 on the (replica of the) skeleton on display there.

Really fun day! Thank goodness we got back to the house before the heat really hit 😮‍💨

All that’s left is a dinner with my other family members at a good Japanese restaurant—they usually do Mexican when eating out but thankfully it seems they’re willing to go to a Japanese place instead for this special occasion :D ( that being my visit)

That’s not for another hour or so, so I’m off to recharge my social battery before then with a small snooze

@idkfitememate keeping you updated as promised :)

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Well these were wild!

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The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces 

Click here to check these great photos and learn more about this museum in Chichibu, Japan.

Click here to visit the website of the museum.

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