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Published: September 20th 2019
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One display, showing many animals, all at peace Today we visited the Creation Museum, yet another awesome collection of excellent gardens, models, videos, and museum exhibits. The most impressive to me was a 4D video showing the six days of Creation, narrated by reading the first chapter of Genesis. That meant we wore 3D glasses and our chairs vibrated as the story unfolded. Much of the opening was shown from wavetop level, and every time a wave splashed, a gust of wind caught our faces, giving the momentary sensation of being splashed. The 4D video flew us fast and low over amazing terrain as it formed. We brushed aside the foliage as we drove through beautiful forests and gardens. And we had an up close and personal view of every creature we saw.
We then walked through a comprehensive series of exhibits depicting the whole biblical story story from creation through the Cross. The exhibits were really well done and very beautiful. The animals were fanciful, but realistic, the foliage was lush and pretty and full, and the people were almost lifelike.
After walking through the museum, we stopped to have some food and refreshment at one of the restaurants on the grounds. It was really very
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Promises good. And we needed the rest - we've done some walking the last couple days.
Finally, we walked around and through some of the really nice gardens on the site. We did not ride the zip lines.
Then it was time to leave. All told, we spent about 5 hours at the Creation Museum, and it was well worth the time and the cost.
Both sites were very very well done, informative and educational. Because we already know and accept the truth of the Creation story, it might be a little less important to us than the Ark was. Almost everything about the Ark was new information to us both. The two have some things in common, so they overlap in parts, but the depictions are different and complementary, so the redundancy, such as it is, is all good. If I had complete freedom to do it all over again, I would do the Creation Museum first, if for no other reason than the fact creation happened before the flood.
Because we had a schedule to meet, we didn't spend as much time as we probably would have without the schedule.
This has been the
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Noah building the ark day I was most concerned about on this whole adventure. You see, we needed to return our rental car by 6:00 pm, then get across town to the train station in time to catch our train at 1:31 am. Doesn't sound like much of a problem yet, does it? What makes it fun is the fact the train station doesn't open until midnight and we have two backpacks and two duffel bags (it is a three week trip) and don't know what kind of neighborhood it is, and then there are the practical problems of food, etc.
It seems to have worked out very well. Enterprise took us to the station, which happens to be a significant museum that leases space to Amtrak. As we were unloading our stuff, a museum security guy came out and explained the situation: He would let us into the Amtrak waiting room, where we could stay until we catch our train. There are restrooms, a water fountain and comfortable seats. Not luxurious, but perfectly fine. We can use the time to just slow down a bit, and all the worries are resolved, so we are quite happy the way this whole time in
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The seven C's the Cincinnati area has gone.
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