Living in Paradise

Well Patty and I are trying to take some time every weekend to just have some us time. It's not really a pre-planned date night but we decide on stuff to do with just the 2 of us and then we do it. Saturday was one of those times. We had seen an article on the Titanic and it said there was an exhibition at the Royal Museum in Victoria. I looked it up online and noticed that it opened up yesterday on the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. They also had a Imax film opening up the same day. So Patty and I jumped in the car and off we went to Victoria just the two of us to spend the day together. The hardest part of the trip was finding a parking spot but we eventually found one within walking distance of the museum. The museum was pretty busy and the earlier Imax showings were all sell outs so we got tickets for the 4:00pm show. We had to go check my back pack as it wasn't allowed in the place but was told that photos were allowed except for in the aboriginal area. While walking around taking photos I had one person come up and tell me that they were told no pictures or your camera will be confiscated. I thought they meant flash photos because the place was so dark that a normal camera wouldn't get a good shot in the darkness. Even with my camera turned up as fast as it could go I was sure the pictures would all turn out blurry. It wasn't till after we had got out of the Titanic exhibit I noticed a sign saying no photos allowed.

Now as you walk into the exhibit you are handed a boarding pass with info on it about a passenger that was on the Titanic. I got a Mr. Emil Brandeis who was a 48yr old from Omaha Nebraska traveling alone in first class. Patty got 36 yr old Mrs Henry B. Harris (Irene Wallach) from NY who was traveling first class with her husband. It also gives you some background on the reason they were in Europe and why they would be on the Titanic. After wandering around and looking at all the exhibits and reading all the info about the ship and the passengers you come into the final room where they have a list of all the passengers by class and if they survived or not. It appears that Mr Brandeis was not as lucky as Mrs. Harris as he did not survive the sinking and Mrs. Harris came out of this with just a broken arm.

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