Adam is off to Germany for Oktoberfest, so the kids and I headed up to Birmingham for a day of fun at the McWane Science Center. It is awesome! We loved this psychedelic looking projection of their movements - this was a big hit.
The also loved these seats -- of course...it was an example of a pulley system, so MOMMY had to pull the rope to get them to the top.
Big bubbles are always fun.
Savannah was making this bubble wall, that she could blow giant bubbles through.
This section was all about magnets, and she loved it. They had one table that had a container of shaved metal and controls to adjust the vibration and the poles of the magnets. The one she was playing with here was a glove filled with magnets that you could experiment with.
Guess who this is. (Gage) This what we call "smoosh face". We push all the straws to one side to smooth it out, go around to the other side and smoosh our faces into it. We love this one.
Savannah made this cool handprint piece today. She also did a lot of smoosh faces but this was different!
The caption of this picture should be "little brother supporting big sister's OCD". There was a wall of "light brights" behind Gage. He would bring each crystal over to her so she could line them up in rows of colors on the table. Ah yes...my little OCD girl. She's been lining things up like this since she was a baby!
This cool thing was a metal pole that you could spin -- and watch go through a curved line cut out. Very cool. She got that thing going so fast I was afraid to go near it.
Gage engaged in a staring contest...with a fish. I reminded him the fish had no eyelids,but he was going for it anyway.
Savannah loves seahorses, so it's always fun that we get to see them there. Along with Nemo for Gage :-)
Yes...this is a bed of nails. It starts out with you laying on a plastic surface with holes, and then someone (your evil little brother, perhaps) holds a button on the controller and the nails raise up. We all did this one - it feels very very weird! And it hurts if you have flip flops on, fyi.
On the way out, the kids were just about to get into this wind tunnel, and some other kids busted in front of them and bullied their way in. So, we watched those rude kids and talked amongst ourselves about how unacceptable their behavior was. Once those kids got out, mine piled in. Savannah was NOT really a fan -- I think her hair was whipping her face. The winds got up to hurricane force. Gage loved it though :-)
And that was a day. We stopped at Moe's for some tacos on the way home, and Savannah fell asleep in the car minutes after we left dinner. The science center take it out of you!
