Treasured Pearls: First Time at the Science Center

Thursday, May 05, 2011

First Time at the Science Center

The other weekend our local science center had a deal where admission was $5 per person thanks to the Walmart Foundation. When you've got 6 kids and normal admission is $17 for the youngers, that's a deal you can't refuse! So we took everyone to the science center. We had a great time.

TJ and JA "working in the orange grove"

GW harvesting oranges

The girls inside a tree

GW and AT checking out a snake

TJ learning about corbelled arches

JA and GW experiencing sound waves

Our good friend "Uncle E" with HJ

AT flying an F-16

simulator

TJ driving a race car

GW showing off his insides

We packed a lunch and ate outside

We might have a budding scientist on our hands.

He spent a LONG time looking at each of these specimens

AT, our budding meteorologist

SG in a hurricane

HJ and SG flying the space shuttle

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