IMAX

We packed quite a bit in this the "birthday weekend".....thus far. From eating to shopping to eating to talking and driving and driving and driving.....I miss my small city......where in P.A. it would take no more than 10 minutes tops to get anywhere.....here it takes a minimum of 30 minutes and more, depending on the weather, the traffic, the time of day AND IF you hit the lights right.

We went to the IMAX theatre where we watched a show about hurricane Katrina and how she took a real swath out of the wet lands in the New Orleans area. It was well done. If I had seen the blackness of that wall of clouds and lightening heading straight for me, I do think I may have died of fright before ever managing to get out of the area.

The movie talked about the earth and how horribly it has been eroded over the past 50 or so years in the Mississippi delta and the difference it has made to various species within that area. With Katrina's ravages, she devoured whole rookeries of bird species, not to mention many types of vegetation as well as trees and water animals. People didn't fare well either!

The power of the earth's forces came through. Man has managed once more to survive its terrors and rebuild once more.......but the loss of wetlands will never again be recovered to its former glory. It made me sad.

Enjoy your Sunday. We'll be celebrating daughter's birthday tomorrow...a couple of days early but it's good to be with them for a time.