My visit to the Glass musuem

I had a great weekend in Niagara and was on the way back home. My husband happened to grab a broucher from the hotel we stayed which said about the corning glass musuem. We knew it was on our way back. I did not have any clue of how glass articles were made. Both of us were interested and we planned to drop by there, if time permitted. Everything went as per plan and we finally reached the musuem . That broucher said that we can make our own glass article and carry it home. All these made it more interesting.
We entered and the person in the counter asked us whether we needed tickets both for the musuem and the glass making. We got the tickets for both and stepped in with the directions . To our suprise, the exhibits were awesome. I am generally not a big fan of musuems and I really feel bored spending time in musuems.But this one was amazing. We spent quite a lot of time seeing the exhibits and taking pictures. We were informed by the receptionist that there was going to be a glass making show. So, we made up for that as per schedule. There were two guys on the dias , who were going to make the glass.
We took our seats in one of the front rows. The show started and the crowd were all guessing what object was being done. We also went on guessing some wrong things. Finally , the object turned out to be a beautiful vase. It was the first time I saw the blowing of glass , shaping etc and I was really thrilled. The show ended and the crowd dispersed. We went staight to the place where we could make our own glass. The broucher said we can take home the glasses made and that made it all the more interesting. We were asked on what we liked to do. We selected the basic one because the other advanced ones required drying for 2 days . The one we selected was sand blasting. We stepped in and we were given safety glasses. Perhaps, I still dont understand why we wore that for sand blasting :) We were asked to select the type of glasses we would like to do sand blasting on. I was confused as I had thought I would be making the glass itself. But , that was not the case. We selected a type of glass we liked. There were lots of stickers in varios shapes. Then it was our job. We went sticking the shapes, writing letters and sticking them and so on. That was really fun. Then , the guy there helped us doing the blasting . We made glasses for each other :)