This is the emergency evacuation plan for one of the libraries in Wichita.
The red line illustrates that, in the event of an emergency, you are to run chaotically around the library, screaming in terror. I think this diagram is a little confusing, so I drew my own, more simplified version.
We visited
Dad for a few days in
Rogers before heading to the great city of Wichita. The people of Wichita (Wichitans?) seem to enjoy choice, 50 choices to be exact. Would you like a restaurant that serves 50 different kinds of hotdogs? Wichita. Need 50 different flavors of donuts for dessert? Wichita. Want to wash it down with 50 different margaritas? Say it with me, Wichita.
Besides the surplus of hotdogs and donuts, Wichita has a poop load of surprisingly great museums. The Museum of World Treasures has so many priceless artifacts that we honestly thought it was a hoax, but it's not. Who would guess that Wichita would house, among other things, the world's largest display of real dinosaur fossils, 4 royalty mummies, a shrunken head, and a piece of the Berlin wall?
Even with all of these attractions, Wichita has a surprising lack of... people. The downtown sidewalks are empty, save for the bronze statues of playing children and wandering adults. It's like a scene from the movie
I am Legend. I asked a native if the heat wave was keeping the good citizens at home, but he informed me that this was typical downtown foot traffic. Wichita: lots of stuff, no people.
Now I'm sitting backstage as Matt does the summer's last performance of his new show, the Legend of Walter Weirdbeard. This is a show about a crew of pirates that finds a treasure chest full of old books. Dismayed, the crew mutinies, but the captain keeps them at bay by reading them story after story, until they fall in love with literature. Fueled by their new passion, the pirates head to the library to steal the books, only to discover that the library loans them for free. This show is newly minted, and Matt is riding it until the wheels fall off. After the first summer, a new show always needs some repairs and changes, but this show is going to need some serious attention. Matt literally did the last 5 performances with the stage duct-taped together and a hot glue gun on hand. Still, the show has been well-received, I think mostly because the stories the captain reads are so great. Please enjoy the tale I've linked here, "
My Big Fat Mermaid Wedding". Note: I accidentally deleted Matt's video of this from the computer, so I filmed this one on the hotel wall. Just for you, readers.
The red line illustrates that, in the event of an emergency, you are to run chaotically around the library, screaming in terror. I think this diagram is a little confusing, so I drew my own, more simplified version.
We visited Dad for a few days in Rogers before heading to the great city of Wichita. The people of Wichita (Wichitans?) seem to enjoy choice, 50 choices to be exact. Would you like a restaurant that serves 50 different kinds of hotdogs? Wichita. Need 50 different flavors of donuts for dessert? Wichita. Want to wash it down with 50 different margaritas? Say it with me, Wichita.
Besides the surplus of hotdogs and donuts, Wichita has a poop load of surprisingly great museums. The Museum of World Treasures has so many priceless artifacts that we honestly thought it was a hoax, but it's not. Who would guess that Wichita would house, among other things, the world's largest display of real dinosaur fossils, 4 royalty mummies, a shrunken head, and a piece of the Berlin wall?
Even with all of these attractions, Wichita has a surprising lack of... people. The downtown sidewalks are empty, save for the bronze statues of playing children and wandering adults. It's like a scene from the movie I am Legend. I asked a native if the heat wave was keeping the good citizens at home, but he informed me that this was typical downtown foot traffic. Wichita: lots of stuff, no people.
Now I'm sitting backstage as Matt does the summer's last performance of his new show, the Legend of Walter Weirdbeard. This is a show about a crew of pirates that finds a treasure chest full of old books. Dismayed, the crew mutinies, but the captain keeps them at bay by reading them story after story, until they fall in love with literature. Fueled by their new passion, the pirates head to the library to steal the books, only to discover that the library loans them for free. This show is newly minted, and Matt is riding it until the wheels fall off. After the first summer, a new show always needs some repairs and changes, but this show is going to need some serious attention. Matt literally did the last 5 performances with the stage duct-taped together and a hot glue gun on hand. Still, the show has been well-received, I think mostly because the stories the captain reads are so great. Please enjoy the tale I've linked here, "My Big Fat Mermaid Wedding". Note: I accidentally deleted Matt's video of this from the computer, so I filmed this one on the hotel wall. Just for you, readers.
When you start your course work in August, it's going to blow a big 'ol hole in my blog-reading fun. Are you absolutely certain your quest for higher education is all that necessary? MDawg
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