St. Louis Science Center

Where we live now it kind of feels like we live out in the country.  I drive through miles of corn fields to get to the nearest (off base) store, Walmart.  But even being out in the cornfields, St. Louis is only 25 miles away.  On our day off school last week (MLK Day) we went to the St. Louis Science Center.  Museums are a perk of living near a big city. And like the zoo and several other St. Louis attractions, the Science Center is FREE!!  There was a really cool rolling ball display at the entrance.  We had to check it out.

Programming the train.  We could change how fast the train went and for how long by setting different toggle switches to different settings.  The speed and time was all in binary.

 Changing the designs on the floor by dancing!

John had fun dancing on the floor too

 The architecture exhibit was fun too.  We got to build a big catenary arch like the St. Louis arch.

 And a little one

 And learning the importance of cross beams/supports.

Working a robotic digging arm.  This one caused some distress 'cause the line got too long and Anna didn't get a turn.

There was a walkway between two parts of the museum that goes over the interstate.  We got to look through telescopes and clock the cars on the freeway with police radar.

 There was also a little glass manhole to look through and see the cars passing below.

 At the dinosaur dig exhibit

Grant digging for dinosaur bones.  We also saw an Imax (or Omnimax) movie about the Ice Age which made the kids a little sad 'cause it talked about, among other things, a baby mammoth that died in a mud pit.  It was interesting though.  We got to see some space displays in the planetarium and had a lot of fun in the energy area and math area.  Plus it was great to get in for free...so we can go back some other day if we like.  Lots of science fun.