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 :)

Court Case hearing - To my suprise !!

I had always liked to be present for a court case hearing since childhood. But, I had never had a chance to see the scene other than in the television. Mostly almost all cinemas especially tamil ones bring atleast one court scene in the picture.
Last weekend, my brother-in-law had come over here for the memorial day weekend. They wanted to get their marriage certificate here. So, my hubby browsed for all the necessary documents to be taken and the location of the office that was close by. We drove there in the morning by 11 am. All four of us got inside the building after all the checking. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law were asked to fill up a form for the marriage license. I was keen in seeing the whole office so me and my husband started walking around the office. As I was walking around, I saw plenty of rooms numbered as court room 101 ans so on. I was wondering whether we could step inside. When I was telling my husband about this, he immediately asked a cop there whether we could enter one of the rooms.The cop, without any hesitation said yes. We went inside and I was astonished to see the same setting as I had seen in the movies. So, we just stepped in and sat on one of the last rows there. There were two cops standing inside and talking with them.My husband went on explaining me with the seating arrangements like where the juries sit, the judge and so on. Few minutes later, a judge, two lawyers and about eight juries came and took their seat. Everyone there got up as a sign of respect and we followed as it went on. It was total silence when en elderly man came over there.He took his seat in the front and he was questioned. It looked like he was a chemistry professor and was brought there to get some minute details regarding the drugs. There were two lawyers present , one for the plaintiff and the other for the defendant.One lawyer, who was supporting the plaintiff asked some questions to the elderly professor after which he left the place. We also saw a young guy sitting near the defendant lawyer. I had always thought that the defendant would be questioned directly. But then, I found the lawyers speaking one after the other both sides.The case was simple for us to understand .It was something related to drugs found in a car. Some sheets of paper were passed over to the juries and some time was given for them to read those .The case was then put up for after lunch and the team dispersed. we moved out discussing the casse and I was really happy for I had always wanted to see a case in reality.