OMSI

On Tuesday, November 20th, we went to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland. I was really surprised with how kid friendly the museum was. The kids all had a blast there - there was so much hands on stuff to do! There were a lot of science experiments and stations where the kids could build things. We spent close to 4 hours there and we probably could have easily spent another couple of hours! I think it will definitely be on our list of things to do on future visits.

Luke played a Connect 4 game with robotic arms against an older kid and beat him without any help!

At this station the kids were able to take small paper cups and cut them so that they would fly up in the air under these wind machines. They had a lot of fun taking the cups, throwing them onto the machine and watching them fly up into the air. Some of them went pretty high up and would stay up there for a little while.

The Van de Graaff generator was pretty fun to play with. You could stand up on the crate at the base of it and put one hand on the ball while holding these small metal tins in your hand. Then when someone cranked the belt to generate static electricity, the tins would go flying off your hand one at a time. M&M got shocked pretty good on it though when someone touched her while she was holding on...

Check out Kitty's hair!

Here are the kids pretending they are penguins sliding down the ice.