Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Paris: The Star Wars Exhibit

OK, we're geeks.

We had about three hours to kill on Sunday before we took the train back to Strasbourg, so we decided to go to the Star Wars exhibit at the Paris equivalent of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. There was a bit of concern (mine) that we would get back in time and it wouldn't be some cheesy tourist thing (got the info from one of those brochure stands at the hotel) - but it turned out to be really cool.

There was actually the real characters, costumes, models, and drawings from the trilogy - as evidenced by Patrick standing in front of Yoda.

We also went around to the other exhibits and saw an interesting section of bio-identity projects. The fingerprint and iris readers were pretty cool - wouldn't be surprised if France has them all over the place (like Tram stations) in the next 10 years.