New stuff at the Nature and Science Center

This morning Oliver woke up and asked to do something, "really, really fun," so we took advantage of the nice weather and visited the Nature and Science Center again! It had been a while since our last visit, so it was nice to see everything again. If you ask me, it really is one of the best kid-friendly places to go in Austin. There is so much to do, so much to see, you can trade things that you find, and it's all free!! Can't beat that. :-)

On our visit today, we walked up a different way and I saw this bat mosaic that I'd never noticed before! Oliver apparently had seen it before: "Moooooom, don't you remember seeing it when we came with Grammy?"




We didn't stay in the fossil room too long this time, and instead went into the cave room to explore the space exhibit. There were so many neat things to look at and play with!


Oliver and Buttercup both liked this globe (sorry that you can't really see it in the picture, ha ha) that showed how a satellite orbits the earth.


This was also really neat: if you placed your hand over the holes on the table, each one would send a ball up into a tube, showing you how high weather balloons, satellites, commercial airplanes, and space shuttles go into the air. It's educational for adults, too!



I love this picture, ha ha! Oliver was listening to a narration of the path of Hurricane Charley in 2004. He looks soooooo bored. :-D


After the space exhibit, we went outside to do the usual stuff-- looking at the animals, fish, and birds, and playing in the dino pit. We love the Nature and Science Center!