First Trip to the Science Center

Recently I blogged about the trip we made to the Science Center for Pi Day. That was not our first trip there.

The first trip we made was the week prior. It was to be a 'short' trip...we did not explore EVERY part of the building.

The very first thing I saw and was excited about as we walked up to the strange-shaped building that is the Sceince Center was the sign for the geocaching exhibit. [Aside: I LOVE geocaching...even though I do not yet have access to a GPS. ^^" I do my best by studying other people's pictures, reading their comments, and googlemaps. It doesn't work vastly well, but it's still fun. For those who do not know, geocaching is the hobby of finding hidden caches of items and such by using their GPS, then logging their visit to the cache on geocaching.com.]

I thought it was super cool that they had an exhibit, including caches hidden around the harbor that you can borrow museum GPS to find. (We haven't done that yet.) When we later went to the exhibit, I was the only kid to go through the entire maze they had, reading all the signs. (Dad came with me. ^^)

That was not, however, the first thing we did. First we watched the new Alice in Wonderland movie from Tim Burton on the IMAX. In 3d. It was pretty awesome. (My favorite character was probably the Cat. Or the Dormouse. Except for that icky eye-poking thing she does.)

After that we did some exploration of the museum.

Dad got tired and decided to rest for a bit.

On a bed of nails! Ouch!

Not really.

We went up to the roof of the Science Center, where they have a really cool telescope. They also have screens you can hold in front of your eyes so as to safely look at the sun. It filtered out light...and made the sun appear green.

We even got to look at the sun through the telescope. Needless to say, you got a lot better picture. Dad spent a long time looking through it.

I couldn't see through very well...sometimes having glasses means suffering the curse of being unable to through telescopes...microscopes...binoculars...

I like my glasses, however. I enjoy clarity in my life. *laughs*

I did manage to take a picture through the telescope.

I was feeling pretty good about my picture...until one of the guys running the telescope goes "No, no, no...that's not a good picture...this is a good picture!" He spends several minutes getting me a closeup picture of the sun...it even has some action going on toward the left side - a sun flare. Looks like a little curved thread.

As long as we were on the roof, I wanted to get a good shot of the view. Only way the view could be better is if they had built it so you could face the water.

Finally, just some other pictures I took of the interior of the building from varying heights.

I imagine that these probably will not be the last time you see blogposts about the Science Center around here...it's become a very popular place for our family!