pretty scary stuff

When we were on South Mountain we talked with a young couple about things to see in Phoenix.  He was heading off on a bike and she walked after him, after telling us about Heritage Square downtown.  Finding the square and parking was not difficult, but we made the mistake of deciding we would start with Heard Museum and started walking there until we realized it was a half-mile away.  So we doubled back and went into the Science Museum.

It's the typical science museum and maybe more, with lots of hands-on stuff for kids, so there were plenty of them there, being loud and having fun.  We wanted to time the afternoon so we'd finish by having pizza at the Pizzeria Bianco, an Italian restaurant the couple on South Mountain had recommended.  So after viewing a number of exhibits, we chose to delay our departure at the IMAX theater by watching the movie about polar bears, glaciers, seals, and the disappearing Arctic Ice.  It was our first-ever 3D movie, for either of us, and we thought we looked pretty cool with these scary glasses on.

Yeah, that's us, and the theater was dark but for some reason the flash wouldn't go off.  Probably enhances the value.  We were both impressed when the movie's opening credits broke like ice shards and looked to be flying at or through us.  Fortunately we escaped unharmed, though I might have tweaked something when I dodged.

There's also a museum on the square and other restaurants, but we were on a mission for pizza.

We ended our tour at Bianco with the Wise Guy pizza, no sauces, wood-roasted onions, mozzarella cheese, and fennel sausage.  Delicious.  The building looked to have true historic value but their website doesn't say anything about it, only describing the food and bar.  Nonetheless it was all delicious, but probably not the type delivered by a guy on a motorcycle.  We just kind of wished we had eaten outside.