COSI

Guess who? Yep, it's Alyssa again seeing my Mom is still not ready to pick up the slack and commit to doing her blog. Kids these days... Okay, so today I am here to write about our day at COSI (which stands for the Center Of Science & Industry). It is a really neat museum with cool exhibits, not the boring ones like the lemon battery (ooohhhh, acidic friut. Let's all pose for a picture). In these first pictures you can see us kids sticking our faces against these pushy red things that molds your face. You have no idea how much pain and suffering went into these pictures. We had to fight the kids who would ruin our designs, and we had to put our mouths over the red things. YUCK!

After the pushy red things, we went into a room and turned into producers and special effect dudes. Brianna was the star of the star of the show (big surprise there, right?), and Ryan and I worked the special effects. Of course the show was a smashing success. It was a show about a girl who liked to dance and giggle, in a magical snowland with penguins. Okay the whole smashing success thing? Yeah, it didn't actually work out too good. Awkward...

The Synopsis Of Our Show: 5 year old Saphira has a secret. Her whole life, she has longed to sing and dance with the Antarctic penguins. One day, she finally decides to defy everyone, including her loving sidekicks Bear-Bear and Elkie, to meet her goal.

Here we are at the passageway to Lost Egypt! OK, I wish it really were Egypt, but unfortunately, it was just the entry to the special traveling exhibit. This particular one was about Lost Egypt (NO WAY!!!) It was actually very fascinating, and had a lot of cool and REAL artifacts including jewels, pots, the original Rosetta Stone, and a real live (or dead) mummy! It was very neat, and a great learning experience.

Here I am riding my own sidekick, Camille Camel! I must admit, the fake camels are rather comfortable to ride, with felt fur and rounded humps. Soooo, the real ones must not be that different, right??? :)

Here are Brianna and Grammy watching a short video about uncovering Egypt.







Next we headed over to Inventions Through Time (or something like that anyway). Brianna and I grudgingly agreed to go, thinking it would be some boring exhibit, but it turned out to be two huge rooms, one that was set up like a town in maybe the early 1900's, and another that could have been inbetween the 50's and 80's. It had real shops and everything that you could interact with Here we are posing in a little carriage in the early 1900's!




There we are.... Time traveling in grace, style, and poise. Look at how good we are in front of a camera, and you will see what I mean!






Ahhh, my favorite picture. Here I am declaring myself conqueror of the early 1900's. I just gave me heroic speech, and am awaiting the appluase of my minion, um, I mean my townfolk.

The picture next to my conquering one is our first view of the next time period. Pretty retro, huh?




Here we are at the diner, awaiting the service of the new employee whose attention is otherwise diverted in the food containers.







Ahhh, finally our waitress has arrived with our order of... Nothing? I definitely will be contacting the manager.

There I am, declaring myself head news anchor (I have a thing about declarations, just in case you are a bit slow). I delivered a story about some guy that has something to do with space. Hey! I even started building up my fan base! Some guy who was watching kept complimenting me and patting my shoulder. Apparently my future is dependent upon my news anchoring skills.

Next we went into the gadgets room. It had a lot of fun things you could play and tinker with. In these pictures here, Brianna and I are testing our weight, and are pulling ourselves up to the top of this pole. "I'll make a man out of you..."

Brianna tinkering with these wheels that you are supposed to connect to make them all move.

Our last exhibit of the day was "Ocean". It has a few different exhibits including "Poseidon's Grove" and a few rooms that featured submarines and such. Poseidon's was the coolest though, because there was so much to do. For example, here we are shooting water at the huge statue (and each other if we could manage it).

War has officially been declared! Let the battle begin!

And finally, our last picture features Brianna and I balancing balls on top of fountains.

Overall, it was a very wonderful day. We learned lots of neat stuff, and even had fun doing it (Hey, is that even possible)!

Peace!

Alyssa