Family Outing

The family wanted to do some sight seeing while in town, so scouted the internet for things to do (of interest to the fam) and it was raining pretty good this morning, so we settled on going to the air and space museum in the city.
It stopped raining by the time we got there and ready to see the sights. We were there within 10 minutes of the next planetarium show, so we quickly headed over there for the star show. Well, let M.E. say this, I WILL NOT BE VISITING THIS PLACE AGAIN ANYTIME SOON. Not that it wasn't really nice, interesting and cool, but when they put that night sky on the ceiling and started spinning it, zooming in and out, I got nausea. Really Nausea. I had to close my eyes to keep from throwing up. Craziness. After it was over Aunt Cream and Papaw both said the same thing. Must run in the family.
Next we headed over to the hangar to experience some planes and all things air. With high ceilings, I had a hard time taking pics. Using the night function on my camera I was able to get a few blurry ones. Here's Little Guy with a cool old plane.

Sman flying a plane.

All the boys in the cockpit.
M.E. the Astronaut

Upstairs of the museum was some cool science games and activities. We had the most fun up here playing. Here's Mammaw on a Bed of Nails.
They also had a safe cracker game to learn number sequences, and weighted calipers races and our most favorite of the day, the turn table. This was too cool and we could have spent hours playing with this. It was a table, you see, and in the center a rotating disc. It was heavy metal, very smooth and turned pretty quickly. And there were these weights with holes in the center that you put on a wooden dowel and balanced on the turning disc and then remove your dowel, so the weight would spin and travel on the turning disc. Its kinda of hard to explain, but it was so fun.
After the museum, we headed down to the river for a bit.

The railing on the walk way was not up to code and LG could fit through them so we only stayed about 5 minutes, for fear he would fall in the river. We really have a good time playing and hanging out with the family. It was great having them here.