Titanic Exhibit at the the Museum of Idaho

We took a trip over to Idaho last weekend to visit with Jason's family and some friends. While we were there, we went to the Museum of Idaho which had this really awesome Titanic Exhibit. I actually got teary-eyed a few times looking at some of the pictures on the wall and reading some of the stories...some of heroes, like a lady that gave up her place on one of the boats to let a lady on who was crying that her kids were already on that boat and needed on. The lady who gave up her seat to that mother ended up dying when Titanic went down. Some stories were of villains who were men who slipped their way or bribed their way onto boats even though there were women and children waiting...one rich couple bribed their way onto a boat and then paid the employees rowing the boat to row away and not go back even though there was room for more on their boat. It's horrible. It really showed the good and bad side of the human spirit.
One really cool thing, was that when you bought your ticket to get into the museum, you actually got these Titanic tickets as if you're boarding the ship along with the name of someone who was actually on the ship and a little bit of their story. At the end of the museum was a wall with all the names of the survivors and those that didn't survive, so you would look up "your" name and see if you survived. Mine was a woman with two small children. She was supposed to sail off with her husband earlier on a different ship for his work, but she got sick so stayed behind with the kids and later booked passage on the Titanic. She was 3rd class so I knew it probably wouldn't be good. When it came time to look her up, I was really hoping she would have made it, but she and the kids did not survive. Connor's card is the one pictured below. His was actually of a priest who stayed behind on the boat to the end and quoted scripture and gave comfort to those on the ship before it went under. It was amazing how attached you became to these people by the time you were done looking at everything in the museum. It was really a neat experience.