Summer Science

Ever since our last trip to the museum last month, Marina has wanted to go back. So we went this afternoon. When we arrived, the first place she wanted to go was the new kids area.

When we arrived it was pretty crowded. So Marina wandered through all the activities and found that the tables with animal activities were available. She played around there for a while. The she headed to the construction zone, where she built with many types of blocks.

By far, Marina had the most fun in the water play area. It's a very elaborate set up with fountains, whirlpools, faucets and sprayers. Marina loved a whirlpool in a glass case. She dropped balls into it and they spiraled down to the bottom. Sometimes a large ball would get into the bottom and plug up the bottom which made the glass overflow. Marina loved watching it.

After playing in the water, and getting soaked, we moved on to the dinosaur area. Marina crawled on a duck-billed dinosaur and hunted for buried bones.

After Marina had explored the whole area, we went to the health exhibit. It wasn't too busy, so Marina was able to complete her favorite activities. We also completed an experiment extracting DNA from wheat germ.

After going through the health exhibit, we decided to go home. We'd had a fun afternoon of science.