Hey, Folks!  I can’t believe it.  We hit 300 continuous episodes this week and it’s our Utah Adventure Week.  Y’all hit the jackpot with this episode!

Starting out with our rambling intro, we talk about recording on Two’s Day (2/22/22).  Yes, I’m a dork because I think it’s cool and used it all day in my email signature.  Jeremy and Julia talk about heading out for the annual boar hunt.  This year Julia is hoping to bag a boar because someone has requested one through her shop (listen to last week’s episode to hear more details about her business, The Pleiadian Altar. 

Chris and I are back from our short little cruise to Ensenada, Mexico, where we stayed on the cruise ship and just had a relaxing little vacation.    Cruising is one of our preferred means of travelling.  Also, my colonoscopy was not February 25^th but March 25^th, so I promise to provide riveting information next month for those of you who are getting old like me.

Last item as we transition into our adventure is Jeremy’s new chicken.  It’s either Puff Daddy or One-Eyed Willy.  We talk about what jerks chickens are and where the term ‘hen-pecked’ came from.

Onto the exciting adventure. This month we went to Clark Planetarium in The Gateway.  Utah’s planetarium goes back to 1964 when Gail Plummer, a professor at the University of Utah expressed interest in converting our old library (we’d outgrown our second Salt Lake City library space at 500 South 200 East).  At that time Plummer convinced Beatrice Hansen to donate $400,000 to fund the new Hansen Planetarium, in memory of her late husband.    When Mrs. Hansen passed away, the building was renamed the Mr. and Mrs. George T Hansen Planetarium, Space Science Library and Museum.  During its operation it had the highest per capita attendance of any planetarium in the nation.  It soon outgrew the space and when it moved to The Gateway in April of 2003.  A $1 million donation was made through the Clark Foundation on behalf of Sheila M Clark, and it was renamed the Clark Planetarium.

During its time as the Hansen Planetarium, it created the first “pitless” digital dome in the United States.  The dome was innovative and created an amazing opportunity to view education and entertaining information in a 3-D manner without the aid of glasses.  When the planetarium oved to The Gateway, they created a new dome theater.  Two super-high-resolution projectors work together to blend a seamless video stream over the entire dome.  The shows in the dome theater cover a variety of space-related themes and are live-narrated.

The Clark Planetarium is about 10,000 square feet of free exhibits that are interactive, entertaining, and educational.  Listen to hear about our favorite exhibits and experience with them.  One of my favorite exhibits is an infrared camera where we discover my core is literally white hot.  Apparently, I’m always cold because my interior heat does not escape!

We hope you are enjoying our Utah Aventures as much as we are.  As the weather warms up, you’ll hear us doing more things outside.  If you have any ideas for us, let us know on the socials!!!

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