Aventura 18: Miba

A measuring tape belt.  A spoon with a spring instead of a handle so you can slingshot your food! "Boc N' Roll": The reusable bocadillo sweater to bring your sandwiches to school in.  A water bottle with a built in filter.  A chair that has a piece on the back that prevents you from tipping over.  A cookie-dunking mug!

A picnic bench that converts to a picnic table.  A kitchen towel with a magnet so you can throw it on the fridge whenever you aren't using it.  A stirring spoon that has two taste-testing ladles at the end.  A jacket that converts to a purse and back to a jacket.  A bathroom mirror that is also a radio and a clock and a thermometer.  A mop with a microphone so you can really jam out while you are cleaning.

A calendar with package bubbles on each day of the year, so instead of crossing the day out, you pop the bubble! A wristwatch that is a magnet to hold nails, screws, bolts when you are constructing something crazy.  An egg cuber? Glitter spray for food to make broccoli more appetizing.  A waterproof notebook to write all you best ideas and inventions in the shower.  A flower pot that finds its own sun, in case you forget to move it!

These are just a few (crazy, huh?) of the crazy, silly inventions and ideas at the Museeu d'idees i invents de barcelona.  You enter the museum in the store, with crazy inventions already surrounding you - then the first words you encounter tell you that you're entering a world of crazy ideas and inventions that YOU could be the next to display.  You walk through rooms of all these inventions and ideas that just MAKE SENSE and are so much fun.

And don't forget about the bathrooms.  You sit in the bathroom (for girls) or stand (for guys) and there's a tv in front of you that starts, with three guys walking by, "peeking" and making fun of you! I left the museum with my brain spinning.  Different colors, ideas, inventions going on in my head.  

And the next few days of class, while you should see my margin notes: a ring that converts to a long pointer-finger for teachers to use, or anyone, when needing to point at something.  An earring that is a little man sitting in your ear that records what the teacher is saying, so if you aren't paying attention, you can pull his leg and he'll repeat that last question you missed....Or the picnic basket that has glow-in-the-dark ribbon weaved in it so you can have night-time picnics! 

Always remember: "No todo está inventado." -- "Not everything has been invented." These inventions are pure work of the imagination - and it was beautiful to see.  Imagination is what keeps the world moving, what keeps it interesting, what keeps it worth living I think.

May your creative and crazy imagination flourish!