On Saturday, we saw the travelling exhibit of the Titanic at our local museum. It closes here and moves to a new museum at the end of Memorial Day Weekend, and Ka'iulani had been wanting to see it (she borrows books about the Titanic from the library often). It was great to be able to see things we have read about in books, and really cool that some of the exact accounts we have read about in stories were highlighted in the exhibit. Some of the stories behind the artifacts that have been recovered, and the circumstances that led to people to either be on the ship by chance, or completely miss the opportunity to be a part of Titanic's maiden voyage are amazing. 
We were each handed a boarding pass as we entered the exhibit. It gave us a passenger's name to follow on their journey aboard the Titanic. The girls and I were all first-class women passengers, our tickets would have cost approximately $2500.00, or a little more than $43,000.00 by today's standards. Rebekah was a pediatrician, and Emma was Alyssa's mom :) Ka'eo was the only one who was a 3rd class passenger, his ticket would have cost $35.00 at the time of Titanic's launch, and today that would be equal to about $620.00. After looking at our first class accommodations, the girls pointed across the way to the third class cabins, and said, "Daddy, that is where you would have to stay." It was four bunk beds smooshed together, and they explained on the plaque next to the room, that these passengers were often in there with strangers who didn't even speak the same language as them. At the end of the exhibit there is a wall listing all the survivors, and all those who lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic. Ka'eo was the only one of us who didn't survive, and Kahiwa was crying very hard when she saw his name on the wall of those people who were lost.
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Do you remember how obsessed I was with that movie... me and Fife, LOL. I would love to go see that exhibit... I'll have to see if it's coming to Seattle! Isn't it wonderful when a child gets to see things first hand after reading/learning about things at school. It makes learning so fascinating... traveling to Europe and going to exhibits just like this one is what sparked my love of History.
Yes!! I remember how much you Fife LOVED this movie. Between the two of you, you guys must have spent a small fortune on movie admission alone :)
And it was neat to see the little light bulbs turning on in the girls' minds. Without them even saying anything, you could tell they were thinking, "Oh, so that's what that would have looked like, or that's what they meant..."
I hope the exhibit makes it's way to you soon, I know it's travelling all over the nation. It's a little pricey (we have a membership through Dave's work that gave a considerable discount) but great to see. It drew in the most new visitors our public museum has had for a special exhibit in years.
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