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blade runner umbrella was all I needed :)

3D printed shoes, pretty cool actually

this would be very cool at burning man :)

tiny arcade worked and looked super cool

Z80 clone, very cool

nice way to show how FPV works

Miniature worlds were great:

Big things:

remember seeing those guys at burning man, they look better at night ;)

this robot was cool, but unreliable

and it died before being able to hit the car (on its 3rd failed attempt)

the Tesla coil from my neighbours at Burning Man

The dark room was fun as always:

The Google booth had some friends:

learning about the upcoming total eclipse

A few talks:

Ahah, other people have been making neomatrices:

a roomba for grass, good iea, but expensive ($1500+)

Always nice pictures:

Also, nice display of RC aircraft and cars:

Multiple sport demos and performances:

For animals, a koi pond, and japanese dogs:

Lots of Ikebana:

Dolls:

Kanji Art:

Dance and music performances:

sacre coeur

And here are some pictures taken from inside:

nice model of centre george pompidou

sacre coeur

pisa

venice

Let's start with Bruges' Choco Story. Sadly by the time we arrived there, it was 16:30, or 30mn from closing time. so we had to go through it quickly. Still, it gave a good overview of how cocoa beans were discovered, which birds ate them, and the complicated process to turn them into yummy chocolate :) (they also had a demo showing how to make a specific kind of chocolate):

pretty, that bird that eats the cocoa beans :)

the beans are colorful too

Choco frites, really? :)

all the reasons why chocolate is good for your health :)

yummy samples to try on the way out :)

A few days later, while in Bruxelles, we went to see the Chocolage Village Museum, which sure took its museum job seriously, and had even more displays:

fantastic model of the basilica

atomium

They also had a place where wthey were growing real cocoa plants:

chocolate is easy

a 'mere' 15 steps...

I quite enjoyed their poster and comics collection too:

you be a good boy and you get chocolate, simple :)

So let's be honest, it's far from being the best cavern I've visited in the US, however, it has a vast arrays of rare helictite crystals, which I had never seen anywhere else. Water pressure causes water droplets to be pushed out of the rock, evaporate, and leaves behind very unusual organic looking growths:

Good call Arturo, thank you (and thanks to Johannes for getting us there)

It was very well done, quite worth the trek there, and the money.