Rainy Day Fun

Earlier this week Logan and I went back to the Wonder Museum (when we went last time I’d forgotten my camera) for a rainy afternoon escape.  The museum is connected to the zoo, which we now have annual passes for, so it’s great, cheap fun!

The entrance and top floor have a number of optical illusion exhibits/activities.  I’m not sure which of us was more mesmerized by these spinning patterns and “changing” colors!

  This room, part of the second floor, was Logan’s favorite.  It was all about motion and physics—lots of balls and tracks!

Of course, Logan had just as much fun going to retrieve the balls himself as he did sliding them down the tracks.  Oh well, I suppose that counts as learning too!

This, in my mind, is one of the coolest things—you speak (Japanese) into the microphone and water comes out of the other end and the Japanese characters for what you just said appear in the pool.

Then you can take this little bucket, “pick up” one of the characters and it changes into a picture in the bucket!  The picture corresponds to the letter, like a-apple, b-bear.  Logan did a pretty good job of fishing for the letters.

The bottom floor has all the nifty technology exhibits, including that water speaker and this umm . . . motion tracking screen.  Apparently I really can kick my leg up fairly high over my head! 

I just realized that all the pictures of Logan are of the back of his head!  He’s obviously 1. getting pretty independent and 2. very absorbed by all the fun things at this museum.  I’ll do a better Logan-update soon.

On a side note, God has been speaking some pretty incredible things to me recently and I would greatly appreciate your prayers for discernment and courage to follow.