A Trip to the Museum

We had a great trip to the Family Museum in Bettendorf yesterday.
They had just the right amount of hands on activities to keep the
children entertained. There was a synthetic hollowed out tree to
crawl around in, a "garden" made out of vinyl with cardboard produce,
an apple tree with removable stuffed apples, a play house area for
the 4 and under age with a vertical maze to crawl through ending with
an exit slide. One section was called From Here to There. This had
all kinds of activities regarding motion. A hovercraft model you
could sit in, a working lock and damn Drew and I agreed Dad would
have LOVED, a little pond you controlled the wind on with a sailboat
in it. . . Another section called Rhythm In Motion had dress up
clothes and a stage, whistles controlled by giant piano keys, another
set of whistle type tube made a note when hit with a flip flop.
There were two open rooms, I'm not sure how they worked but they took
a siloutte of the person in the room an projected on a huge screen.
The cool thing was the silhoutte had a growing rainbow around it.
Very hard to describe but very interesting and beautiful. There was
also an outdoor park and an energy section. This was Drew's favorite
as it taught us all what it cost to run a light. There was a bicycle
hooked to a light bulb, hair dryer and blender. You sat down on a
bicycle and had to peddal it to generate enough electricity for each
item. I could not make the hair dryer (which we use as a mitten
warmer)! It was a great lesson!

Will have to finish this later