SCIENCE CENTER HORRORSHOW
The Pacific Science center is a haven for gastronomically challenging curiosities and menacing predators, which I believe are aimed specifically at entertaining young boys. In the bug exhibit below, there are giant mantises and scorpions, caterpillar kabobs, cricket wraps and cookies, etc., displayed just outside the delicate butterfly garden (presumably a sanctuary for freaked out little girls). Then there’s the dinosaur gauntlet before the exit, replete with mechanical velociraptors digging maniacally into some poor herbivore’s hide, and a grinning T-Rex ringed by an assortment of smaller, seemingly worried creatures. All said, my daughter was nonplussed and nervous, yet buffeted by her lengthy encounter with the butterflies.
