Sunday, August 9, 2009

OMSI

OMSI is one of the best places to take kids to play and learn. Since we stayed overnight at Miles and Erin's when decided to take the kids out to OMSI to let them play. Most of the exhibits there are orientated toward a little bit older group of kids for the most part, but everyone still had fun for the couple of hours that we were there. We spent almost the whole time in the kids area where they got to play with balls by dropping them in tubes and watching them go to different places and playing with the wind cone.

Kenya was excited to be there even though the picture makes it look like he wasn't. Adahleigh was so excited to be there that she didn't really know where to start having fun at.

Kenya was just as helpful here as he was at the zoo in pointing out all the fun things to do and how to play in the different activity areas.

The sandbox was one of the favorites of everyone (and not just our kids as you can see by how crowded it was). The worst part of the sandbox was it smelt like stinky feet, probably from all the kids being barefoot in there.
The water area was a lot of fun even when Adahleigh decided that it would be fun to splash people too.
The life science area was very interesting. The neatest thing they had there was a collection of human fetuses, from all stages of pregnancy, that have been collected from private or institutional collection over the years (before 1940) to make this one complete. Erin was able to show Azure and Kenya what their new sibling looks like right now. No pictures of this exhibit though because it wasn't allowed. The kids did like looking at the animals that they had in the same area. Adahleigh thought this gecko was pretty cool.

Even this strange cancer rat (Just look at that lump under its arm). We even taught Adahleigh to say rat there, needless to say she ran around saying "wat" (rat) the rest of the time we were there.
At the end of the day, once Miles got home from work, we stopped by a pond/water park by their hows to cool off. All the kids played in the water until they were freezing, but none of them ever complained about the cold.
Adahleigh even played in the water that was too deep for her to stand in, which is a little unusual for her. Since then though she has become a fish in the water, she just can't get enough of it.

Warming up with mom after the swimming fun was over. Charles spent the whole time sleeping while everyone played in the water.

1 comment:

tinyrocks said...

those pictures are so cute! and your kids are adorable!

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