As I feared, I have had no time over this summer to do much on my blog.
SOON the kids will be back in school and I will be able to get back to regularly scheduled programming!
But in the mean time I am trying to keep up with picture trip reports.
On Thursday I took the troops downtown to see the science center.
I think Alex was 3 the last time we visited.
The cast of characters included:
Me (well you knew that since I took all the pictures)
4 of my own personal kids:
Sarah (We picked her up on the way there)
Alex (He needed a break from all that tiring Black Ops he's been forced to endure these past weeks)
The Partners in Crime, Jeffrey & Katherine
and The Twins, Jacob and Olivia who are spending most of their summer with us.
So we arrived bright and early, er, wait.... I mean in time for lunch at the California Science Center which shares real estate with the Colosseum (where many of the 1984 Olympic games were held) and The Natural History Museum:
First stop.... a picture in front of a SR-71 Blackbird:
For some reason the dry ice fog didn't show up when I took the picture:
The kids were fascinated with how small the Apollo capsules were:
Jeffrey listening to the Doppler effect:
Katherine and Olivia looking at the satellite exhibit:
The crew playing virtual soccer:
Alex trying out the ping pong ball machine:
Jacob trying his hand at it:
Sarah checking out some information on the wall:
All 4 of them trying to pick up balls with different types of bird beaks:
Jeffery & Jacob take a ride on a snowmobile:
Katherine, Jacob and Olivia check out the frozen wall:
Sarah and the girls find some dessert bugs and lizards:
Waiting to get splashed by the flash flood:
Alex showing Jeffrey how one of the machines work:
Smashing their hands in the ocean depth pressure machine:
Checking out the 2 story deep salt water tanks:
The kids loved watching the divers feed the fish:
Katherine looking into the under water periscope:
Getting some close up looks at the fish:
We were first in line when they opened up the touch tank:
Jeffrey and Jacob head for the 3rd floor:
Planes from the next door Air & Space museum are on display here while the other museum is being renovated:
Because we didn't do enough already today, we stopped at the Griffith Park Observatory:
Somehow we got inside, despite the contradictory signs:
The boys checking out the "Big Picture" from the new viewing platform:
Katherine and Jacob looking at Meteorites:
Jeffrey sits with Griffith J Griffith and demonstrates how little sky is actually shown on the "Big Picture" wall.
The planets shown in correct proportion:
View of the Hollywood Sign from the lower observation deck:
The gang's all here!
All in all we had a really great day!!
