Yesterday we went to see something called Body Worlds 3. It was creepy! When I found out that the bodies were real...blaugh! I thought “Ugh! Gross!”

Some of it was kinda cool, though. The slices of the smoker’s brain were gross. It had black patches that covered a third of the slice. There were also some models that showed where all of the veins were in the vascular system of different animals and body parts. One of the models was a chicken. The other one was an arm. I think it was made out of foam, but I’m not sure.

Mom said there was a cross section of an obese man who weighed 300 pounds. I think his heart kept shrinking until he died of a heart attack at age fifty-one. I can’t imagine that at all, can you? It would be like getting squeezed by a boa constrictor, really slowly.

Some cases had stomachs and other organs in them. One of the things they had was a glass case with a model of your nervous system. They had some horizontal and frontal slices of the brain. The frontal slices were framed and hung on the wall. The horizontal slices were in a case.

The bodies that were on display all had to go though a process to preserve the tissues called plastification. They showed a video of the plastification process near the end of the exhibit. The bodies that they were working on was a horse with two riders. I think they have it out in front. The statue is kind of cool. All of the bodies showed the muscles. One of the bodies was posed as a gymnast balancing on three wooden balls with a sort of hatch open in its back holding its organs up. There was a statue that was a soccer goalie diving for a ball. There was another one that was a man who had taken his skin off like a suit. Another statue is close to the bathrooms, and it looks like a woman doing a backbend on the balance beam. There were lots of bodies on exhibit.

After we left, I did say that I hated it, but maybe it was kinda cool!