The epic penultimate day
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sabotabbyThere are many pictures and even a short video of our adventures today. I tried to weed, honestly I did, but there was so much awesome that I almost considered splitting the awesome in half.
We tip generously, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monster_grrrl goes a step farther and also tips a dinosaur.
Beneath the cut lies:
• Natural History Museum and Bug Art
• Dog Chapel
• Bread and Puppets Theater
• The Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment
• Random cool things that happened and animals, adorable and otherwise
Who names a road this?
We stopped in at Chutters, which boasts the world's longest candy bar.
Then to the Fairbanks Museum of Natural History. This is the cute church nearby.
The museum has a large collection of creepy taxidermied animals.
Sad otter is sad.
Creepy dolls.
The main reason we went to this museum, however, was to see the work of John Hampson, who, in the 1870s, created a series of pieces made from dead insects.
Look closely. It's quite the mindfuck.
There's one really large bug sculpture for some reason.
Apparently creating displays of insects and birds was all the rage during the Victorian era.
We then went to the Dog Chapel.
The story of the Dog Chapel is actually kind of sad. This artist had a near-death experience during which he had a vision, inspiring him to create a sanctuary where people could come with their dogs and remember dogs they had lost. His artwork is beautiful–he really captures the wisdom in the dogs' eyes. The inside of the chapel is full of notes that people left about the dogs they miss. I left notes about my childhood dogs. Anyway, the chapel and his art business was suffering financially, so he killed himself, which drew more attention (and money) to his chapel.
We went thinking that it would be kitschy and fun and ended up crying and having a group hug.
Our tour guide.
They also have some fish-themed items available for sale.
There's a frog pond outside. I am Most Pleased with how this photo turned out.
Time for a video break! We'd been driving for awhile, so we decided to try out the Diet Coke and Mentos thing and see if it would work. For SCIENCE. Obviously, it did, or I wouldn't mention it.
(Sorry for the shitty film quality–we were trespassing so we had to do it quickly.)
This is where I could really picspam you, and won't, but it was amazing and I seriously had a hard time deciding on which of the 100 or so photos I took to use. We went to the Bread and Puppet Museum in Vermont. It's a breathtakingly beautiful place.
The building you can see out the window is the theatre. It's also very cool, but too dark to photograph in such a way as to do it justice. They also have the first and only wheelchair accessible outhouse that I have ever seen.
Finally, a bunny:
Tonight, we are in Montréal ativytheadventure's pad. We bumped into one of her friends and went to her place for beer and conversation. Tomorrow we head home.
We tip generously, but
monster_grrrl goes a step farther and also tips a dinosaur.Beneath the cut lies:
• Natural History Museum and Bug Art
• Dog Chapel
• Bread and Puppets Theater
• The Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment
• Random cool things that happened and animals, adorable and otherwise
Who names a road this?
We stopped in at Chutters, which boasts the world's longest candy bar.
Then to the Fairbanks Museum of Natural History. This is the cute church nearby.
The museum has a large collection of creepy taxidermied animals.
Sad otter is sad.
Creepy dolls.
The main reason we went to this museum, however, was to see the work of John Hampson, who, in the 1870s, created a series of pieces made from dead insects.
Look closely. It's quite the mindfuck.
There's one really large bug sculpture for some reason.
Apparently creating displays of insects and birds was all the rage during the Victorian era.
We then went to the Dog Chapel.
The story of the Dog Chapel is actually kind of sad. This artist had a near-death experience during which he had a vision, inspiring him to create a sanctuary where people could come with their dogs and remember dogs they had lost. His artwork is beautiful–he really captures the wisdom in the dogs' eyes. The inside of the chapel is full of notes that people left about the dogs they miss. I left notes about my childhood dogs. Anyway, the chapel and his art business was suffering financially, so he killed himself, which drew more attention (and money) to his chapel.
We went thinking that it would be kitschy and fun and ended up crying and having a group hug.
Our tour guide.
They also have some fish-themed items available for sale.
There's a frog pond outside. I am Most Pleased with how this photo turned out.
Time for a video break! We'd been driving for awhile, so we decided to try out the Diet Coke and Mentos thing and see if it would work. For SCIENCE. Obviously, it did, or I wouldn't mention it.
(Sorry for the shitty film quality–we were trespassing so we had to do it quickly.)
This is where I could really picspam you, and won't, but it was amazing and I seriously had a hard time deciding on which of the 100 or so photos I took to use. We went to the Bread and Puppet Museum in Vermont. It's a breathtakingly beautiful place.
The building you can see out the window is the theatre. It's also very cool, but too dark to photograph in such a way as to do it justice. They also have the first and only wheelchair accessible outhouse that I have ever seen.
Finally, a bunny:
Tonight, we are in Montréal at
ivytheadventure's pad. We bumped into one of her friends and went to her place for beer and conversation. Tomorrow we head home.
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Date: 2010-08-17 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-17 06:49 am (UTC)Your photos remind me much of the Czech Republic, where I visited a church decorated with human bones: http://www.outsideprague.com/kutna_hora/bone_church.html
They have a pretty incredible sense of humour in that country.
I DO NOT LIKE bug sculptures. Horrible! Worse than human bone Christmas decorations! All those dead bugs to make a sculpture of a BUG?!?!?!
Oh dear. This won't do.
Poor doggies, though. I like the stained glass with the doggie licking the ice cream!
US
Date: 2010-08-17 10:28 am (UTC)Re: US
Date: 2010-08-17 02:56 pm (UTC)Re: US
Date: 2010-08-17 03:07 pm (UTC)Americans, on the other hand, tend to gravitate to All Things Creepy. Just look at 'W' and his popularity rating for all 8 years. *sigh*
Re: US
Date: 2010-08-17 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-17 12:57 pm (UTC)The bug sculpture isn't made from bugs. Just the wall art.
One can stay in the wilderness in Canada, but these are from the U.S.
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Date: 2010-08-17 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-17 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-17 12:58 pm (UTC)what are up with these places dude
Date: 2010-08-17 07:19 am (UTC)Perhaps it's overdone, but I saved the creepy dolls into the reference folder. And then I realized that I want to put most of these photos into the reference folder, and I suddenly felt very tired. I do it laters.
The Dog Chapel reminds me rather strangely of Lavender Tower in the pokemon games, which is a place where people bury dead pokemon. Oddly chilling and sadder than one might expect.
Re: what are up with these places dude
Date: 2010-08-17 01:05 pm (UTC)Re: what are up with these places dude
Date: 2010-08-18 06:54 am (UTC)Please make me a zip of these pictures. Particularly the bug sculptures, which, if you didn't think were going to end up in our comic after you saw them, I don't know you anymore.
Re: what are up with these places dude
Date: 2010-08-18 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-17 01:46 pm (UTC)This is a brilliant roadtrip. I am very impressed by the places you guys chose.
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Date: 2010-08-17 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-08-17 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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