Body World

We took both second grade classes to the Body World exhibit today. It was one of the most fascinating things I have seen on the human body. It's incredible the way our body is so intricately designed to work properly. For those who are unfamiliar, the Body Exhibit is in a gallery here in Salt Lake. The gallery takes donated human bodies and plastinates them so as to preserve them. They remove the skin and fat to show the muscles, bones and everything else that is under the skin. We are studying bones right now and that was one of the coolest things. Being a teacher, I was watching my kids more than I was the exhibit, which was appropriate. Now I REALLY want to go back and look for myself. We got a great discount through a promotion Kohl's was having. They endeed up covering the 80 percent of the cost of 58 people total. We only had to pay 185 dollars for 50 odd some kids and 6 adults. We got a promotional ad that showed students could get in for 2 bucks. Where the original price is 22 dollars a person, that was a steal! It was amazing. Some of the kids thought it was gross, but many enjoyed it. Mostly, they loved the plastic body they could put all the plastic organs in at the end of the tour. Why bother spending the 2 bucks to get in when you can go through the back door to the gift shop and play with the fake person? What was I thinking?