Science Museum
We took Claire and Avery to the science museum in Queens today. Victoria stayed with my mom, though we were prepared to take her if necessary.
The kids loved it. Avery was pretty excited about the rockets at the entrance, but we headed for the Cyberchase exhibit that had just opened first. Claire loved that, Avery not so much. They had a bunch of puzzles from the shows that kids could try to solve, and since it had just opened everything worked.
Avery, however, spotted a demonstration of the standard normal curve in the mathematics section next door and couldn’t be dragged away from the falling marbles. I looked in on a case of topology examples made physical. Nearby were a bunch of optical illusions that kept the kids busy until hunger took over.
Lunch was expensive and not very good. But afterwards we went to the space section and the kids had a lot of fun. Mostly it was about the possibility of life elsewhere in the solar system. Upstairs was a section called “networks” that seemed to be more about connection machines. Claire had some fun on the surfboard simulator, but Avery hated it.
Overall it was pretty fun, and we have to go again. hopefully next time we won’t get lost on the way.