Well, Friday night we drove up to Huntsville Alabama. It's about a four hour drive. The kids were really good on the drive. We had Kara in our car and Aaron rode with Nana and Papa. We stayed overnight at a hotel which was interesting. Kara is a flopper so I didn't get a lot of sleep but got a lot of smacks from her arms and legs flying all over the bed.
Saturday we woke up and arrived at the Space Center. It was really crowded because it was scout day.
At the entrance there was a upright rocket that you could walk under.
We paid and signed in and got a bag full of information and a neat Scout patch for Aaron. First we saw an Imax movie. This was Kara's first movie in a theater.
Our movie was Fly me to the Moon in 3D. She liked the first part of the movie, but then got scared. She thought the guys in the space suits were bad guys. So the second half of the movie I was reassuring her that the spacemen were good guys, but she didn't believe me. Then after the movie we saw some exhibits with the Saturn 5 rocket, the decontamination air stream trailer, a moon buggy and a host of other things. They had the rocket sectioned so you could see it clearer, but Kara thought it was broken. So for a while she kept telling us, "it's broken, the rocket is broken, oh no!"
We finally went to the outside, I couldn't take anymore "it's broken"! There were many displays outside and then there was another museum building that we went through. Very neat.
My favorite part was a section upstairs. It had a space shuttle tire that the kids sat in.
A computer with various games for kids, which Kara and Aaron enjoyed and a jet pack that you could sit in to take pictures.
It was the hands-on part of the museum. There was also a space shuttle landing simulator which Aaron tried, and a rock climbing wall which was too busy to get to.
There was also an unmanned rover that was searching the terrain for movement. It's camera turned and stopped at the kids. Then I moved up and down so it turned towards me and moved up and down. So then the kids were moving up and down and it was spotting them. Very neat. There was also a scale which would show your current weight, your weight on mars and your weight on the moon. Very neat.
It was a long day but very fun. I think Kara will enjoy these outings more when she is older but Aaron really enjoyed it. He was tired thought because he napped on the way home which is very unlike him.
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