Science Center

J and I took Rory to the Science Center in St. Louis. J is really into science and technology so of course he loves to go. We have actually been several times in the last four years and yesterday was the first time Rory was old enough to do more than admire the scenery as it passed him by.
I think he enjoyed just being able to run from exhibit to exhibit more than anything else. There was one booth that was supposed to show how a telephone call when from one receiver to another. He just liked talking on the phone. As we left he waved at the phone and said "Bye bye". Actually come to think of it I think he said bye bye to everything we passed. We learned a lot together though I doubt all of it was what they intended. Like that it would cost $2.3 million dollars to launch Daddy and Rory into space. Anyone got that laying around?

This is painted on the wall just as you get to the big (scary) bridge that crosses I-64. There are little models of man's different adventures in flight hanging down from the ceiling. I think it is just very pretty so I took a picture.

Rory's favorite place in the whole center was this little table. The blocks were supposed to help model how engineers work. Nothing we built was very practical but it only fell apart one or twice.

Isn't he just too cute? I am not looking forward to him growing into the age girls start to notice him. Or even worse when he notices back. *gasp* If you are wondering what has his attention keep scrolling down...

This thing is huge! Is suspends from the ceiling and uses giant croquet balls as marbles. They swirl and spin flying around the room on a metal track. It is very cool to watch as you can see by the picture.

What is an adventure without giant hissing cockroaches! I like them best when there are two panes of glass between us like they are here.

And here we are back where we started at the engineer building table. It was the best thing in the whole day as far as Rory was concerned. Mommy and Daddy were just happy to sit down by this point.