An educational opportunity

When I moved to Atlanta lo these many years ago, Fernbank was a small brick science center on the edge of Decatur that offered presumably boring educational experiences to grade-school kids. And thus it remained for quite some time, an extension of your 7th-grade science class.

Nearly four years later, the foundation behind Fernbank opened Fernbank Museum of Natural History, which was considerably cooler than Fernbank Science Center... mainly because it had dinosaurs. A few years later came the first IMAX theatre in the area. In a stroke of marketing genius, that was followed by Martinis and IMAX^(R), a hip place for young adults to spend Friday evenings sipping $10 martinis, making a meal of appetizers, listening to live music, and visiting all sorts of exotic places against a soundtrack by Sting or The Moody Blues.¹

Well, I've just seen an ad for their upcoming exhibit on chocolate, arriving on 2/11 and sticking around 'til August. If my weight is up this week², I'm blaming it on the billboard I just passed.

No word if they'll hand out free Hershey bars at the end of the tour.

¹One would think the camera movements would induce copious amounts of audience members to lose possession of the martinis they've already consumed, but I can tell you that it hasn't happened while I'm there. Then again, I tend towards the early shows when I go
²It was down again last week. Yay, me!