Sunday, May 2, 2010

Fun day!

Dave got some free tickets from work to go to the air and space museum, so we went! The planes were cool, but my favorite part and Lizzy's too, were the inventions of Leonardo DaVinci! They had built his machines from his original plans and drawings. They were amazing! It was a really neat hands on exhibit. I knew the man was brilliant and had invented so many things, but to see them and use them was really something else.

We finished the museum early enough in the afternoon that we had time to go back to the zoo (courtesy of a year pass-totally worth the $40) and try to see some of the exhibits we'd missed before. The aquarium was incredible! They had a shark tunnel like they do at Sea World! They also had some live coral reefs! It was so amazing!

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Lizzy teaching me about dropping bombs from in here.


DaVinci's cannon
Another one of DaVinici's inventions. I think this one was an armored car.
Dave's grandpa was one of the head engineers for designing the C-47.

Driving the Jeep at the zoo
The shark tunnel!
Lizzy watching the penguins.

2 comments:

September said...

That sounds really cool!
Looks like a really fantastic day, and all for free too!

ems said...

So you posted this last week and i am just commenting on it. :) Looks like you had a great time! I love days like that, especially when they are free! Happy day!