Discovery World, October 2nd

A week ago, the girls didn't have school on Friday, so we decided to go to Discovery World.

 

Outside on Pier Wisconsin, the girls pose for a photo. The tan building behind them, to the left of the big white building, is where Dad works.

 

In the technology center, Emma and Rebekah play a machine operated tic tac toe game. It was fun, an arm of the machine reaches out and picks up a ball shaped marker, then drops it where you tell it to.

 

Here, Alyssa is using the computer in front of her to open and close the roof on the huge model of Miller Park that is hanging from the wall and ceiling.

 
A new addition since the last time we have been to Discovery World: lots of machines that vary in their complexity that the kids can handle and move all the parts around on them to get a better idea of how they work.

 

Funny look of concentration as she operates the flight simulator.

 

Emma laying in the bubble looking out at Milwaukee.

 

We have taken a picture like this everytime we've visited this museum since Rebekah was so little that she was laying down in the grass, not able to sit up on her own yet. The picture is always of them laying down, since that's how the first one was.

 
Emma's favorite thing at Discovery World ~ The Bed of Nails. Even when the place is crowded, she's willing to wait in line several times to have her turn on this.

 

If you can see her face in this photo it's easy to tell that it's clearly NOT Alyssa's favorite thing to do, but I guess because Emma is always so excited about it, she has to try it out on each visit too!

 

This exhibit is also relatively new. It's a model house that shows the different ways that energy is used in a home. Emma liked using this tool, I'm not sure what it is/what it does, but the thing in front of her is a cold panel (like at Stone Cold Creamery) and she was using the tool on it.

 

Rebekah near the windows, and the wall cut open to show the insulation inside.

 
Emma sitting in a cut out corner of the house.

 

Emma looking at the fish she named on her 4th birthday. He's the little yellow and black one, she calls him Hawkeye. We come back and check on him everytime we're here, and she can pick him out each time, without fail :-)

 

One of the stingrays in the touch tank. This one kept doing tricks, by going up to the surface and turning on it's side, making it look like it was waving half it's body at us. After seeing it flip all around like that and come up to the top of the water so bravely, none of the girls wanted to touch it.

 

Bekah nose to nose with a turtle who has buried himself in the rocks.

 

Ka'iulani and Kahiwa controlling the rainstorm in the Great Lakes exhibit.

 

Ka'iulani and Kamele on the floor, taking a rest :-)

 
Peeking in the window of the huge ship that hangs from Discovery World's ceiling.

 

Making banana bread in the ship's oven.

 

All 3 girls in the kitchen of the Challenger. Rebekah is looking up because all of a sudden one of her friends from church and his family turned the corner into the ship.

 
Making tea in the ship.

 

This is the same fountain the girls were playing in over the summer. I think they colored the water pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

 

Alyssa by the pink fountain.

 

The girls were so excited about the pink water, and I was too, to tell you the truth. It looked very pretty. They kept running laps around it. You can click on this one to see how happy Kamele is about the pretty pink water.

 
A and E running around.

 

A different view of the fountain, it extends quite a long way past the Art Museum. The girls always want to walk the whole length of it.

 

Splashing their hands through the pink water.

 

Bekah wanted to know why the water on her fingers didn't look nearly as pink as the water in the pool.

 
Leaping across. She's wearing new white leggings, and while it might not be clear in the photos, the water was an extremely deep shade of pink. I could just imagine her falling in the water, then no longer having white leggings. Fortunately, it wasn't a difficult jump.

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