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Museum trip
Aug. 14th, 2004 05:53 pmToday we took the kids on a Spiral Scouts trip to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. They had a good time. The hands-on science demo room was MUCH enjoyed by them all. We could have just stayed there the whole time and the kids would have been happy. Jamie even got to crawl around for a while, which he enjoyed, and then got to ride on my shoulders. I started to turn to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenite to ask him if Jamie's face looked like he was happy with this, but then he started gleefully bouncing up and down, and I got the idea.
I got some pictures of the kids in the Cowtown area, later on I'll go dig the camera out of the van and see if they came out okay and put them up on the website.
After lunch we were scheduled to go see the IMAX on Forces of Natures. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and tornados. I wanted to browse the museum shop first, but was told to do it afterwards, we didn't have time. Hmph, should have sentselenite in to find seats for us and spent that 10 minutes there. Oh well. Turns out they have one theater that is apparently used for both planetarium and IMAX. So you're in these seats lying down, basically, and the IMAX is being played on a hemisphere screen above you.
This was a BAD THING. I have seen many IMAX movies, and have enjoyed them. But not lying down looking up at a hemispherical screen. The straight forwards and backwards stuff I could handle, but anything that rotated at all was making me hideously motion sick. The position, with Jamie in the sling and then waking up and trying to crawl out, was putting hideous strain on my neck. I felt awful. I gave up partway through and went up the stairs to exit, and after a whispered consult with the nice usher lady went into the parents-with-kids "quiet room" at top, where you could sit upright and look at the screen from a better position. That helped. But I have decided I am NOT doing another IMAX viewing there. Ugh.selenite didn't enjoy it that much either, although we agreed it was interesting subject matter. (Hm, apparently the next Anatolian Fault quake looks likely to be a BIGGIE hitting Istabul. And they're talking about a system that could give them warning - hey, maybe 10-20 seconds! Great, so millions can be panicked before they die.)
And then when we got out the place had become incredibly crowded, so I didn't get to wander the museum store. Pity. They had some cool stuff in the play hands on area that I was wondering if I could get for Brendan and eventually Maggie at home.
But since I hadn't had lunch, and we were in the area,selenite was willing to wait with the kids in the car for me to go into Zeke's and get fish and chips to bring home. Yay. I liked the fish. The fries were only passable, not chips at all, and the hush puppies are more of these awful Fort Worth ones, long skinny weird things that I have never seen elsewhere. But the fish was lovely. Yum.
selenite to ask him if Jamie's face looked like he was happy with this, but then he started gleefully bouncing up and down, and I got the idea. I got some pictures of the kids in the Cowtown area, later on I'll go dig the camera out of the van and see if they came out okay and put them up on the website.
After lunch we were scheduled to go see the IMAX on Forces of Natures. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and tornados. I wanted to browse the museum shop first, but was told to do it afterwards, we didn't have time. Hmph, should have sent
selenite in to find seats for us and spent that 10 minutes there. Oh well. Turns out they have one theater that is apparently used for both planetarium and IMAX. So you're in these seats lying down, basically, and the IMAX is being played on a hemisphere screen above you. This was a BAD THING. I have seen many IMAX movies, and have enjoyed them. But not lying down looking up at a hemispherical screen. The straight forwards and backwards stuff I could handle, but anything that rotated at all was making me hideously motion sick. The position, with Jamie in the sling and then waking up and trying to crawl out, was putting hideous strain on my neck. I felt awful. I gave up partway through and went up the stairs to exit, and after a whispered consult with the nice usher lady went into the parents-with-kids "quiet room" at top, where you could sit upright and look at the screen from a better position. That helped. But I have decided I am NOT doing another IMAX viewing there. Ugh.
selenite didn't enjoy it that much either, although we agreed it was interesting subject matter. (Hm, apparently the next Anatolian Fault quake looks likely to be a BIGGIE hitting Istabul. And they're talking about a system that could give them warning - hey, maybe 10-20 seconds! Great, so millions can be panicked before they die.) And then when we got out the place had become incredibly crowded, so I didn't get to wander the museum store. Pity. They had some cool stuff in the play hands on area that I was wondering if I could get for Brendan and eventually Maggie at home.
But since I hadn't had lunch, and we were in the area,
selenite was willing to wait with the kids in the car for me to go into Zeke's and get fish and chips to bring home. Yay. I liked the fish. The fries were only passable, not chips at all, and the hush puppies are more of these awful Fort Worth ones, long skinny weird things that I have never seen elsewhere. But the fish was lovely. Yum.