Discovery Center

On Thursday and Friday last week, there was no school. What to do? Carlee remembered that the kids all had passes to the Discovery Center - adults admitted free with child- so we decided to spend the afternoon there. We picked up Emma and Aspen and met Carlee, Tyler, Christy and Jake there. What a deal. It turned out that every Friday in October admission is FREE and the Discovery Center was packed! We decided to stay, after all we had driven downtown just for this.
The Discovery Center is like a warehouse divided into rooms with multiple hands-on exhibits exploring sound, light , motion, color, etc. The first thing the kids did was wait in line for the air-brake swing.
You pull your self up until the swing hits the pulley then when you let go, the swing gently glides down to a stop. That's it. But look at these smiles.

Jake and Ellie didn't swing- in fact, for most of the exhibits they were almost big enough to try
And a few knobs were at their eye level. I think they had more fun watching the older kids and trying to do what ever they did. One of my favorite displays was a working camera with a green wall and green blankets. The camera had a background projected onto it and the kids on camera posed and played "can't see me", and bodyless heads with the green blankets. No picture. It was really fun though.
We had parked at Julia Davis Park and so afterwards, we had snacks and let the kids play. It was a little chilly, but the kids didn't seem to mind- especially when they were playing tag.



Jed's family went camping and had a great day too.