Maryland Science Center

This place was very cool. We spent about 5 hours there today and the boys loved it. If we hadn't all been getting so tired, we might have gone back to more of the exhibits.

It is located on the very busy area of Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, which was also a nice walk and the boys got to go out on "the deck" as Gavin calls it.

There was a very cool dinosaur exhibit, that even I thought was interesting and well planned, and I have been to several. The boys headed right over to dig for fossils, and do some detailed uncovering. A very energetic museum employee kept making his way around to show them the dig site plan to see how their progress was going.

 There was a replica of a nest of fossilized dino eggs that the boys crawled into and pretended to be baby dinosaurs.

 Here they are measuring the depth of the different footprints to see which dinosaurs weighed the most.

 Checking out the tornado.

 Gavin on the bed of nails. He did this twice, he was so amazed.

 Gavin and Henry headed into the "Wet Lab" with Caleb. It was supposed to be for 3rd graders and above, but the workers didn't ask Gavin's age and then didn't complain when Henry joined in, since Caleb was taking them through the experiments without much assistance. They loved this. They got to make membranes and do blood-typing (with fake blood). Gavin also did some pH testing.

 While to older boys were in the lab, Wyatt and I were hanging out looking at some of the human body exhibits. Wyatt was reviewing some virus slides with his microscope. This is how he decided to show me what he was looking at.

 Henry the astronaut.

 Both the boys thought it would be cool to pretend to be Han Solo when he is frozen in carbonite.

 Gavin even tried to get a distressed expression going.

 Gavin on the pulley chair.

 Even Caleb admitted that he thought this was a very cool museum, and there were quite a few things that we didn't expect to find. It was a fun day, and the boys may have even learned something.