For my final WordPress post, I am handing the reigns over to my trusted feathered college, Eugene. Eugene is a curious, 21-year-old puffin who lives in Iceland and so happened to visit the Perlan Museum at the same time we did! What a coincidence! Anyway, please enjoy this first-person (first-puffin?) perspective as we ventured through this interactive museum!
Greetings! My name is Eugene I like to swim, I love eating fish, and despite living in Iceland for all 21 years of my life, I am visiting the Perlan Museum for the first time. Now, I don’t have opposable thumbs, so typing is very difficult for me. Please enjoy my excessive photography skills in compensation.
Pro tip: click the first image and scroll through the gallery
Luckily, the Pitt bus allowed me to ride with them. Otherwise, I would have to fly but I am too tired to do thatWE ARRIVED! Sorry, I am bad at selfies, I think I am the first puffin to take one, tho, so there’s that. AAHH! LAVA! I had to know where the closest fire extinguisher was in case a fissure opened!MMMM! It smells like volcano!Perlan is an interactive museum, and I loved watching about the volcanic activity while feeling my chair rumbleTHAT’S ME! Oh, to be young and 20 again..What is this guy doing…? OH MY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!I feel like I’m back at home… except the crowding here is crazy.What a comfy chair to watch Aurora in. Don’t fall asleep, Eugene.WHEEEEE!NO WAY! They have a REAL ice cave!!!Hello, Mr. Polar Bear. I am friend not food. THEY DID WHAT TO MR. POLAR BEAR?Gosh, it is so nice in this Ice Cave. A crisp -10, just how I like it. #inmyelementchillin’ like a kingtiny bird doing big thingsTo teach about glaciers, the museum had these little models outAHHH HELP I SLIPPEDThey also had this interactive table! When I spun it, it showed how our glaciers will melt over the next hundreds of yearsI was asked what the glaciers mean to me… home ❤Awe look at what the glaciers mean to all these people!I’m outside! The museum has this BEAUTIFUL 360 outlook!I told you. 3.6.0.Even a viewing lens!Look at this beautiful landscape! Selfie attempt outside #2. #3 (I’m getting good at this)NO THE WATER IS FROZEN 😦So like who’s cooler? Me right? Right? Riiightt…?Does this hat make my beak look big?BIG STEPPASome orange juice from their cafe!I am a bird. But I am not used to trees.. only rocksI like my rocks. But I could get used to this…Just wait until my friends hear about this. I never said I was a smart bird. I want my rocks again.All that climbing got me hungry! For lunch, I tried the cafe’s chocolate/caramel muffin! It was so yummy with gooey caramel inside!Look. at. this. big. bug. I think it is called a Water Tiger. AHHHH IT GOT ME!!!Look at al these interesting minerals they have displayed!And crystals! Found here in Iceland!Thank goodness for this magnifying glass. (I need glasses but whoever heard of a puffin with glasses?)I can see so many little critters!So many tanks with so many different creatures! This one has snails!These little bubbles were a great way to highlight different ecosystems in Iceland!Woah. The ocean floor!The museum is so interactive! I slid these little pucks around to learn about spots all over my island!What a great way to learn about the different types of landscape here!NO WAY! This place has a real geyser!? THIS IS SO COOL! Flew back up to the cafe one more time to admire the view before I left! The seating area ROTATES and I just watches as we slowly turned!I had to give in my admission bracelet 😦 BUT I got this chocolate in return!!! Scan the QR Code for a surprise!That’s all!! Thank you for coming along!! Hope to meet you in Iceland soon!
Hey all! Emme again! Just wanted to thank you for coming along with me to Iceland! I had a blast and learned so much about Iceland’s engineering feats! I hope you are inspired to join this program, and I encourage you to. Thank you to every tour guide we had, faculty, and staff on this trip! Also, shoutout to the other students that went to Iceland with me; you guys were truly amazing. I wouldn’t want to spend my spring break any other way 🙂
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