We had one of our best visits to OMSI ever the last week of summer! It was a Monday and it was beautiful weather outside, so I'm guessing that is why it was so slow.Our last week of summer, I was really selfish with our time and focused on avoiding scheduling anything that would interrupt doing fun stuff with the girls before the summer ended. I love summer and having the girls home and doing things together. We had such a fun day together at OMSI. We played in the ball room for about an hour and because there were so few kids we got to do a tons of stuff with whatever we wanted. It was awesome! We discovered new things about that place I never knew before. Like there is a track that goes up to the 2nd story from the ball room. Up there you will find a place where you can use a vacuum with remote control and a video camera to suck up balls and watch them go up and then down the track right past where you are and up to the super high ceiling, then back down into the ball room again. Highly entertaining - even for 30 somethings! This was a super discovery that we were proud of. If the rest of you have known this for years, don't rain on my parade.
We were happy the Chemistry lab was open and did every single experiment.
The physics room was open as well and we got lots of time in there doing the static electricity ball and other entertaining things.
We stayed for lunch and had a LOVELY time eating in the sunshine next to the Willamette River. And I discovered the yummiest sandwich I've ever eaten in my life! Who knew? The OMSI cafeteria has seriously good food. I think it was a cranberry turkey Panini - but it had so much more, all kinds of yummy vegetables and a creamy cranberry sauce if you ever want to try it. I don't remember what it was called, but man was it good. The girls found boiled eggs and yogurt so they were in heaven too!
We spent a looong time in the gift shop as well. They have such cool stuff in there. I could look at the books there for hours and hours. What a fun day. Another bonus was that we listened to Super Fudge on the way. This was a huge help when we hit a detour and had problems actually getting to OMSI. The extra long drive would have been miserable without the entertainment. Another super fun one we discovered this summer was called Castle Corona. It has been so fun discovering books on CD this summer! Junie B. Jones is another big favorite. I love these because the girls are so much less zombie-ish with the books on tape, they have to use their imaginations and we can all participate together. Whereas a movie is only really fun for the back-seaters.
We were happy the Chemistry lab was open and did every single experiment.
The physics room was open as well and we got lots of time in there doing the static electricity ball and other entertaining things.
We stayed for lunch and had a LOVELY time eating in the sunshine next to the Willamette River. And I discovered the yummiest sandwich I've ever eaten in my life! Who knew? The OMSI cafeteria has seriously good food. I think it was a cranberry turkey Panini - but it had so much more, all kinds of yummy vegetables and a creamy cranberry sauce if you ever want to try it. I don't remember what it was called, but man was it good. The girls found boiled eggs and yogurt so they were in heaven too!
We spent a looong time in the gift shop as well. They have such cool stuff in there. I could look at the books there for hours and hours. What a fun day. Another bonus was that we listened to Super Fudge on the way. This was a huge help when we hit a detour and had problems actually getting to OMSI. The extra long drive would have been miserable without the entertainment. Another super fun one we discovered this summer was called Castle Corona. It has been so fun discovering books on CD this summer! Junie B. Jones is another big favorite. I love these because the girls are so much less zombie-ish with the books on tape, they have to use their imaginations and we can all participate together. Whereas a movie is only really fun for the back-seaters.
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Mmm...I miss that place! And I would love to enjoy it with children who were all old enough to participate! Very fun.
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