I won’t write about how much I fucking loved the dinosaur exhibit, because you all probably know that I think it was PHENOMENAL… except that they said they had “expanded” their dinosaur collection - however… they just made fake dinosaurs out of plaster. There were a TON of dinosaurs that had no real bone on them. … So that wasn’t very cool. But they were still neat to look at.

I spent last weekend in Toronto with my gay boyfriend, his brother, the lovely pres of the UTSA and met up with some Guelph friends one night. We did the usual… bar… thing. We went to 4, which was actually really nice, I wish we could have stayed there. But we had to go meet people at Crews … we went too late, and it was full of hot sweaty gay men. And ran into like 4 people I haven’t seen in a long time and had awkward conversations.

Anyway… after all that craziness I decided it was probably in my best interest to spend Sunday doing some downtime sort of things. So I went to the ROM, since I missed out on it when all the campus people went. When I walked in, this was the first thing I saw:

Seriously. There is NOTHING more adorable than kids loving dinosaurs. I’d of hated to be the person inside that costume, but they kids loved it so much.

I think the most interesting stops of my day were - Canadian History, Darwin and the top floor Japanese art exhibit.

Canada through the history didn’t actually sound that good, because I already know all about Canada’s history - but after seeing a painting of some aboriginals, and the art’s description of being humbled in front of his own painting - I decided to press on. On of the things they had set up was decor. They showed what people’s houses would have looked like during the first settlements, then with French influence… etc. when it got to the “modern” section it was weird. I was staring at what was supposed to represent my era.

It was a read couch, with a curvy top sitting low to the floor, and a couple super modern looking chairs and like funky looking lamps. The only thing I could think was “Uh, my house totally doesn’t look like that” really.. rich people’s houses were the ones that looked like that. It made me sort of second guess everything I had just looked at. Who actually had the french influenced furniture? Just the rich people? Was anything the correct depiction of how everyday people lived?

The only downside of that exhibit was that it didn’t once mention Sir Isaac Brock, and I love him. <3

The Darwin exhibit was pretty good. I felt bad for the animals they had caged up for entertainment, people knocking on their glass, taking pictures and pointing. They just looked sad. The history of Darwin’s life was good to read, and all the information on evolution was no news - but again, glad to see it was there and being read by so many people.

There was a “tourist” group going through…. so I attached myself for a little bit. Turns out they were a Christian group, and that was interesting. The tour guide would bring them to a section of the exhibit that said on the display “evolution is the only explanation for life science has thus far” and would read it as “obviously evolution isn’t the only explanation” and would make up their own science.

Shanghai Kaleidoscope was the japanese art exhibit on the top floor - I recommend EVERYONE go see this. It wasn’t very big, but it was SO good. The large scale video art was just amazing. I’ll likely go back to the ROM just to see that exhibit again.