Science Fun

I'll have to get the pictures off the camera later, but we made a sort of spontaneous trip to a hands-on science center an hour away from us. I say "sort of" because Jim went on a field trip there with students on Friday and since it was rainy today we decided an outing might be fun and would get some energy out for the kids.
Every section that we were in at the time was the section that the kids did not want to leave. While there were some things the boys couldn't do there was plenty that they could do. So we played and experimented and looked and touched and all the good things that make science fun. (Josie even tried to taste the water in the water play area....I don't think she took in too much and it smelled chlorinated so hopefully we will not get sick.)
We went to the IMAX theater and saw a movie about the coral reefs. Andy thought it was cool. Doug was ok until the great white shark came on, and Josie was upset when they started showing things that didn't look fish like (which was pretty early on in the show...she actually took a bit of a nap for most of the show).
Then we went to a huge mall to grab some dinner before heading home. We forgot to bring cash to buy tokens for the carousel so we'll have to go back some other time. The kids enjoyed the escalators and the elevator with the glass side. We have escalators in our town but the boys were too young to remember the glass sided elevator where we used to live and I don't think they had been on an escalator before (our mall is only one story). So it was a fun day.
Josie was asleep before we left the city, Andy fell asleep somewhere about 20-30 miles out from our town, and Doug faked sleep so that he would get carried into the house (yeah...I know that trick because I used to do it).