Great Lakes Science Center

Before the Knight starts his new job, we decided to take a couple days away. 

 

This was our drive into Cleveland Monday morning.  Little did we know how Hurricane Sandy would change the rest of our plans.

Butterfly making the hot air balloon go up!

The special exhibit we saw was all about frogs.  I was going to post the types of frogs, but don't have time.  You'll just have to enjoy the pics.  If you have questions, just comment.  Or better yet!  If you know the names, play a guessing game.

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Can you find three frogs?

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This frog is alive. Seriously.

These little colorful guys are so adorable . . . but they are DEADLY!  You can die just by touching their skin.  They contain enough poison to kill 20,000 monkeys or 10 humans.  My question: How does someone capture them and get them into the exhibit???

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They also have a NASA exhibit . . .

The kids drove this little lunar (?) vehicle around.

The kids enjoyed themselves in this part of the NASA exhibit.  They stacked tubes on this rubber surface then changed the frequency and speed to make them bounce around.

 

A week or so before we went to the GL Science Center, Butterfly randomly asked me what would happen if you took off your helmet in space.  We shared this with the employee when he asked if we wanted to see what would happen to a balloon and a marshmallow under a vacuum.  He said, "Well, okay. No introduction needed for this expirement then."  Ha! What 7-year old girl thinks of that kind of question?  Apparently, mine.  She's a thinker.

More science center fun . . .

Sparkle helping with gravity experiment

Sparkle made a bubble wall

Butterfly balanced on this skateboard for 99 seconds - the max the machine would allow before going back to 0.

Didn't get to take all the pictures I wanted since my camera battery died.  Really should get another one for back up.  Had to stop at my parents' house and grab the charger.  Good thing Chic-Fil-A have outlets in their seating area or we would have missed pictures of our adventure that afternoon . . . next post, Glow-in-the-Dark Minature Golf!