It’s been raining here since last Thursday (March 5th) Today was the first day it hadn’t rained!!! But, yesterday we escaped the house and visited the Air & Space Museum nearby. It fits really well with our chosen Science curriculum, Apologia’s Astronomy. Plus, It was Military FREEdom Days, so we got in free! Awesome!!
Anyway, we got there around 1130am, after eating our PB&J’s in the car in the parking garage – hey, it was a nice change of pace from the four walls of our home! Well, apparently it was Field Trip Tuesday or something. There must have been like 4 schools there! The place was packed with rowdy kids running every which way & teachers yelling out to stop them, with the occasional line of highly disciplined kids who weren’t able to see anything other than what the Docent showed them, poor kids. So it was hairy there for a few minutes, but the schools all left to go get lunch around noon & we had the place to ourselves. Well, about as much as you can have a big museum to yourself. There were people, just not the huge crowds of annoying kids anymore.
We checked out almost everything! I’ve got a set of photos, but it was fun. The kids really loved the play area, & the big walk-through plane with all the flight simulators in it. We also checked out this huge model of an aircraft carrier and talked about some of the things Daddy sees and does everyday at work. We even checked out this “Mars transport” thing, which was more along the lines of a bad movie with light effects, where you are “along for the ride” as all kinds of craziness goes down on your trip to Mars. Then the side door opens into the Mars exhibit with the rovers and stuff. It was kinda cool, but WAY too loud for my bunch. They lasted like 2 minutes in the video and we hit the button to open the door. But we had fun, wandered around, then we hit the gift shop, where we picked up some “Astronaut food” – freeze dried ice cream bars.
After dinner, while they were eating their Astronaut Ice Cream Bars, GeekBoy said he wanted to throw his in the trash.
“I thought I would like it, until I tasted it and remembered how bad it is.”
A funny end to a great day.