Day at the Imaginarium

Today was day one of our fun spring break. After we did our Saturday chores we went to the Imaginarium in downtown Anchorage. It's like a mini OMSI. They have cool science projects, marine life you can hold (star fishes), and animals. Here's a couple pictures of our day. Jackson's big enough to sit in the stroller our of his car seat (sniff sniff). He's getting SO BIG! He was such a trooper and just watched kids the whole two hours. Only at the very end during group picture time did he start to fuss.Here are the girls going down the slide from the rock climbing wall/ mountain. (Notice Kali had to wear her Wizard of Oz shoes outside and it's "break up" outside which means that water is EVERYWHERE. She said she had to be fabulous. LOL).They had this huge fan that you were supposed to put a ball over so that it hovers in air. Well, MY KIDS thought it would be hilarious to take off their shoes and see if they would fly. I turned around to see all these kids just staring at them. It was funny. They stuck their heads partially in and here's the pic.
One of the exhibits was on bubbles. Madeline had a blast getting all soapy. People were cracking up because every time that she would stick her bubble wand in she wouldn't stick it in just far enough and just enough to get the bubbles all over the wand. Doesn't sound bad but she's 2 so every time she went to go blow and had to put the wand up against her face and was walking around with a goatee of bubbles. In this exhibit the kids stood in this huge bubble wand and would pull the rope up to lift the hula hoop and make a huge bubble around them. Pretty cool. Here are some future Larsen aviators. This exhibit let you fly a huge model airplane. You had to use the hand controls and pedals to make the airplane fly straight in the wind. Both of the girls had a blast and I had to pry Madeline away after the line got too long.
Some baby chicks had hatched and the kids got a chance to hold them. Kali loves animals. This was her favorite exhibit.
As you can see from this picture, it was time to go. There were starting to get tired and hungry. As we were getting ready to leave this man gave us balloons because he had too many from this kid's birthday party. I wasn't sad when the balloons floated off to outer space after the balloon fight that went on in my car. It's hard to see with three kids jumping around hitting each other with balloons. I got hit a couple of times. Remember the movie Cheaper By The Dozen with Steve Martin. There's a scene where all chaos has broken out with their 12 children and he's talking to his wife on the phone but doesn't want her to know what's going on. She asks, "How are the kids?" At that moment a Chinese star goes through the closet door that he's hiding behind. He answers, "Oh fine, they're like kittens." LOL. I feel ya man!