22 Dollar Bawl Session

I don't get grossed out easily. I can handle looking at this

I don't think twice about inspecting this

Which is why I was looking forward to going to this

My Dad, sisters, brother, and hubster and I went to The Body Worlds exhibit on Sunday. It was pretty cool, we started out looking at real bones in a glass case, then moved on to looking at real organs in a glass case, to looking at real blood vessels, real nerves, to real human cadavers with their muscles and veins on display for everyone to see, for everyone to learn from.

It was great, my hubster knows a lot about the human anatomy and he was pointing and explaining every organ and bone and joint and muscle and blood vessel. It was very interesting. Interesting until I wandered into a room where people were staring at what looked like test tubes full of water.

I walked closer and saw the first label, "Less than 1 week", but I couldn't see anything in the test tube and I didn't know what I was looking for. But then I saw it, a tiny white lookin blob at the bottom of the tube.

It was sperm.

Sperm fertilizing an egg.

Sperm in a test tube. The display continued on to show how a baby grew from 1 week to full term. I was fine with the test tubes, they didn't look like anything real, like anything I recognized. But then I thought

These ARE real, these test tubes contain real babies and I thought, how did they get here? Where did they come from?

I continued down the exhibit. I watched the baby grow, they had a baby for every stage, from conception to full term. I saw the baby grow fingernails and hair

Which is when I lost it.

Yes, I started bawling right there in the middle of the museum with people, calm and collected people, all around me.

What is wrong with me? Does anyone else think this is normal? I mean these were REAL babies that should have lived a full life! How did they die? How did they end up here on display? I am such a wuss, I was NOT expecting to see babies.

So I ran to my hubster and hid my face in his arm, it was embarrassing! Nobody else was crying, am I just a big baby myself? I'm not even a mom yet for crise sake!

So I had a good bawl, the kind where your nose and eyes turn red and snot starts running out your nose so you sniff every 2 seconds to keep it contained which only causes MORE people to stare at you while you continue to leak gooey substances from your eye balls and your nose all at the same time.

Yeah, THAT kind!

But, I did calm down. Luckily my sisters were there too and gave me hugs and sarcastic remarks. I then continued on looking at more dead bodies and after we went through the whole exhibit, I was fine and as you can see by the picture below, my silly family was fine too.

(I said fine, not normal!)

Yes, my family was fine, fine and hungry! So we went to Red Rock, a local brewery and stuffed our faces! Food always makes everything better right? Here is my lil sis trying to make an art sculpture out of her silverware, yes she was that inspired by the exhibit!



And here we have my brother, another one of lil sister's sculptures, and the baby sis.




In the picture below we have the hubster, me, and lil sister's attempt at bunny ears. Hubster and I were very amused!




And here we have my baby sis and the coolest guy in the world, my papa!




All things considered it was a good time. I'm so glad I went and spent 22 bucks for a good embarrassing public bawl session.

Money well spent!