Day 6: Friday

Today was full of fun.. and a little sickness..

We started off the day going to breakfast, and then hitting the Spirit of the Dance Irish show. The theater was beautiful!!

The show was amazing and full of energy. We had great seats too, right up front, center row.

After the show, we went to the Hollywood wax museum. We’ve both never been to one, and it seemed like a fun idea. We had too much fun taking pictures..

All the lights and photography did a number on Jen, and she got a bad migraine. However she really wanted to go see the Titanic museum.. so with her last ounce of energy we went to the museum to check it out and see what it was all about.

Sadly, we couldn’t take pictures inside.. but it was a very insightful experience. You start off learning on how they built the ship (did you know it took lots of soap to get it pulled out of the harbor? Yeah! They used soap!!). Then they showed how the crew lived, and the passengers were boarded. The passenger quarters were very small.. even for first class. Surprisingly, even if they were third class/second class/ first class, they were all treated like royalty. The best way to describe the difference is how we treat first class/business class as opposed as coach passengers on an airplane.

They had a special section on the movie. It was neat to see Rose’s dress (the famous red one), and the different big hats used in the film.

Afterwards, they talked about the sinking. They have a bin of water at the same temperature that the water was on that fateful night. Given that I had a fever right about this time (stupid migraine), it felt great to me. But yeah, after five minutes of that water, I can see how someone could pass away fairly quickly. Did you know that after the boat sunk there was about a 45- 1 hour wait until the boats came to rescue them? They said that after 5 minutes in that water one can’t talk and think coherently, and after 30 minutes, people are so cold they pass away. Sad, ain’t it?

They last take you into a memorial room, and you can see all the names of the people who have died. It was interesting to find out threat the first newspapers that came out after the disaster said “Titanic Sunk, all saved”? It really puts the news in a new perspective. How sad and scary it must have been to have relatives on the Titanic and not knowing who lived and who didn’t.

We spent the rest of the day at the hotel. It took some time for Jen’s fever to go back down.