Monday, January 19, 2009

A Short Day :D

Jan 14th

Today was a simple day, really only looking at MMT.
We headed up towards MMT stopping at the Smithsonian area. There we saw 4 Gamma Ray telescopes. We were able to go inside the computer area, looked at the/into (saw ourselves Enlarged :P ) the telescopes, and was explained how everything worked. We also met the Unglaubes up at the Smithsonian place and they continued with us up to MMT. They were a Very nice couple.
Anywho, we then took the long hual up to MMT. The road was zig-zagged with sharp turns and steep inclines. But once we were there, we got a lot of information.
The tour guide lead us to the mirror area, there we met 2 gentlemen. The one gentleman was Very informative. He gave us a Lot to work with and answered almost all our questions. We kept wanting to know more and took a bit longer than what our tour guide wanted. After a while, he had to force us out of there so we could continue moving.
We looped back behind the mirror and saw all the compenents and parts to the telescope. We then continued to tour the control room and the other rooms of the building.
Once we were all out of the building, we took in some of the views. They were AMAZING, by the way. We oogled over that a bit then headed back down. We stopped at the ridge to eat, killing the rest of the Chinese :P
The trip down seemed a Lot faster but the views were still Beautiful!
We stopped again at the Smithsonian thing, watched a quick video, looked around more, and then continued back down the mountain.
We were back in town and relaxed till about 6:30ish. We all went to a small pub and got some Really Good food :D From there, we walked around a little bit then back to the trucks/motel. The rest of the night was spent relaxing and watching Tv :D

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