Maryland Science Center

We spent a day at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore with our friends the Maney's (Wendi and her kids Jordan, Spencer, and Landon). Literally, a day. This place was so incredible we were there from around 10:45-4:30ish. Everything was hands-on and the kids had a wonderful time. Thank you to Wendi for taking pictures since I didn't have my camera.

First stop, DINOSAURS. The kids got to uncover fossils, create dinosaurs on the computer, crawl in dino footrpints, and more!

Paleontologists Gabey, Spencer, Jordan, and Lucas.

McKay loved to climb up on all the little info booths and "listen" to the information on the phones.

There was an awesome kids' room where we spent a good deal of time, and probably could've spent more. Here's McKay playing with a water playground thingy (does that paint a descriptive picture for you?), Lucas and Jordan building a run for a ball, and Gabey playing with a large pin mold. This room had everything to build, push, manipulate, engineer, dress-up, and basically have a ball.

A classic picture of Gabers. Look for this one on Cory's new profile pic on facebook.



We spent some time in the "Newton's Alley" exhibit, where there was all sorts of hands-on activities to learn about electricity, force, motion, and all that smarty pants Newton stuff. Below we all take our turn pulling our weight up using a pulley system.

In the "Wonder Warehouse" portion they used this fandangled thing to make circular air puffs. OK, so I'm not the science whiz, but it was cool and we had fun. There's G dancing in front of screens with recorded people. Why? There were sensors next to them, and the more you moved, the more they laughed. So, the "sillier" the kids got, the more the people laughed. Totally G's kind of thing. Jrdan and L are busy creating some crafts.

Here Gabey and I take our turns on the bed of nails. You laid down on the surface, then the employee pushed a button to raise the nails under you. Yikes! You see G's face in the middle picture? That's before the nails. The pic on the left is after the nails are poking through.

Jordan and L in the "Human Body" section trying to figure out how to piece together a human skeleton.

Putting L's vital organs in the right places (stomach, kidneys, liver...).

Landon and M near the end, just after M woke up from a 20-minute power nap.

Final stop, the space exhibit. I think I told the boys to pose like astronauts...I'm guessing G is demonstrating weightlessness?

So, yes, this was an amazing place to visit and we all had a lot of fun. Thanks for going with us, Maney's! Let's do it again next year!

And you're invited to join us, too.