Too good to be true!

 I love Tamarac Senior Center. Not only for the great exercises I can do there daily,  but also for the new friends one can make there.

New friends made on the trip

Another enjoyable aspect of activities there are the outings; shopping, theatre etc. 

For a while, these trips were on hold, so when I heard about a new one to Boca Raton Museum, I jumped at it, especially when I heard the price $3!!!!!

In front of Boca Museum 

According to Google, it was Richard Carlson an American author who came up with the saying; if it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Well, I fall for it every time 😬. 

So when the Senior Center promoted a $3 trip from the Center on Wednesday February 21st to Boca Museum, although it sounded too Xtra good to be true,  I swallowed it hook line and sinker.

And so did the almost 40 other seniors who boarded the bus today.

Some of the others who swallowed the bait😊.

Front of the museum

When we got there, we discovered to our chargin that the museum had not been informed that our group was coming, so no arrangements had been made for a tour.

$3? Hah.

 That was just for the bus ride for we had to pay another $10 each to enter the museum! 

So much for swallowing bait!

Sigh.

We all went in anyway and in my book it was more than worth it.

On the first floor, they had a section called Smoke and Mirrors where they showed how magic tricks were performed over the years and also debunked so famous fakes.

To explain the magic tricks, they used projectors to create the illusions. 

See some below.

Fascinating stuff and eye openers for gullible people like me!

This to me was more than  worth the money.

And there was more, as they had a section exposing some notorious evangelical frauds.

One was Peter Popoff.

I had seen his ads for miracles on tv and had marveled about his chosen name, as in our Jamaican language, Popoff means scam. 🤣🤣

 Well they exposed 'his miracles' fully, explaining how his wife worked the audience before the miracles, to set up everything,! 

The second floor was good too. It was pure art. 

I especially loved this one by Andy Warhol of Mohammed Ali and the Ancient Americans and African exhibits. 

Some pics are below.

A school trip was there too.

There were some good sculptures on the outside too, in the sculpture garden.

A sculpture outside.

Yup. It turned out to be a good day after all and we were carefully driven to and from the venue by the ever reliable Mr. Elliott.

Pics below of Mizner Park, in front of the museum.



Machu Picchu Exhibition

One country that was way up on my bucket was Peru.

You see, I am a history buff, especially when it comes to the life of indigenous people.

Peru is replete with this kind of information as it has one of the longest histories of civilization of any country, going back as far as the 10th millennium BCE. 

Their civilizations ranged from the Norte Chico civilization to the Inca Empire, the largest state in the pre-Columbian Americas.

The most famous relic of Inca civilization is Machu Picchu, often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas". The Incas built it around 1450 and occupied it until around 1532 when they abandoned it after the Spanish conquest, according to the radiocarbon-dating.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historic Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 and in 2007, it was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide internet poll.

Their capital is Cusco, centered on the Andean Mountain ranges, and having heard so much about that empire, it was my main drawing card to that country for years.

This desire was driven even more, when my best friend, a flight attendant, went there and told me what a wonderful experience it was, despite having to travel on narrow, winding roads atop deep scary ravines, to get there.

Although I hate heights, that description did not scare me one bit as my desire to see it for myself was overwhelming.

Boca Raton mueseum of art

However, I had not been able to realize my dream due to lack of funds. So, when I learnt that a Machu Picchu exhibition would be on display near me at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, wild horses could not prevent me from attending.

So, I went and it was everything I had expected. But guess what, when I saw the actual height of this fabulous archeological wonder in3D, I knew immediately that the trip to get up there was not for me! For, it brought back such vivid memories of the time I climbed a pyramid in Mexico. Going up, no problem. Looking down, major trauma!

So, thanks to Boca Raton Museum for the wonderful exposure to the wonders of that ancient empire but more importantly, curing my desire to make a trek to somewhere that would have scared the hell out of me!😁

But if you are not a scaredy-cat like me, it must be an awesome place to visit.