Science City

When I was a little girl I was fascinated my science. I mean I was head over heals in love with the stuff. I think I was a mad scientist for halloween every year from Kindergarten to fourth grade. While I am not as passionate about science now as I used to be, when I found out Kolkata had a science city I knew I had to go (it aslo helped that they had a life sized dinosaur at the gate that I had been dying to take a picture with).

Unfortunately, what I found was not that impressive. While I had been warned time and time again not to get my hopes up to high, in my mind I had envisioned a sort of ultimate science city wonder..a place where all your science dreams could come true. I had built the place up so much in my mind (to Jay's amusement as he was one of my warners) that when I finally got there there was no place Science City could go but down. The one exhibit that I couldnt get enough of was the Hall of evolution which took you on a long hot walk through a poorly lit building past moving plastic dinosaurs all the way up to the "neandrathal men"

There was one wonderful part about science city and that was the cable car ride that you could take from one side of the park to the other. From up in the air the park looked great and the view of the city was actually quite pretty. So while my wildest science fantasies were not met, I suppose I can just chalk my day up to another Kolkata experience.