Monday, January 2, 2012

A trip to the Science Center

The weather was so nice on New Year's Eve, Bill, Nolan, and I decided to take a trip to St. Louis.  Bill has wanted to take Nolan to the Science Center for awhile now, and Saturday was the perfect day to make the trip.  Bill and I had a lot of fun with Nolan.

Nolan thought the T-rex robot was really cool! He kept pointing at it and smiling.
 In this picture, Nolan is testing the different stresses of the same material.
 Checking out the traffic below.  He wasn't quite sure what to think of the cars zooming by below him.
 217 days, 22 hours, 23 minutes, and 46.48 seconds until.......Curiosity lands on Mars.
 It would cost around $380,000 to send Nolan into space along with his essentials. i.e. stroller and diaper bag.

There are three different floors in the Science Center and on each floor there is a different theme.  We found Cyberville and Bill thought it was pretty cool.  Of course, he had to argue and say the Science Center was wrong, because he knew 30=a when using the acii table.  Bill was so adamant he was right, I had to take a picture of him.  I asked Bill to explain the process of pushing a letter on the keyboard and how it shows up as a letter on the screen in front of me.  It is actually very interesting, when a letter on the keyboard is pushed, a number is sent to the computer, because the computer can only understand numbers.  Each button on your keyboard has a number and uppercase letters have different numbers than lowercase letters.  The number sent to the computer is then displayed on the computer screen as the letter you pushed.  It amazes me there is no delay when this is all going on!!

Bill went home and found out he was wrong and the Science Center was right.  30 does not equal letter a. 

 The key
 78 = N for Nolan :)

On the Lower Level was the Dino level.  There was a Build-A-Dino store located on the lower level as well.  I am sucker for a guest shop or anything associated with souvenirs.  I wanted to buy a souvenir for Nolan, since it was his first trip to the Science Center.  Nolan did a great job making his dino.  After the dino was stuffed, we created a birth certificate for him.  It took Bill and I awhile to come up with the name. We went through the generic: Rex, Spike, Dino, and then my brilliant husband thought of Lou.  Short for St. Louis, where the Science Center is located.  I have a genius for a husband!!

 Nolan chose a golden T-rex
 Daddy helping Nolan push the foot pedal to fill the "skin" with stuffing.
 Nolan picked out a heart on his own.  Well, he actually picked out two.  Nolan chewed on one and gave the other one to the worker. The heart is kissed and then put into the T-rex.
 Daddy and Nolan with the finished T-rex.
 Nolan and I creating Lou's birth certificate
 Nolan wanted to sit at his own computer....

We expended a lot of energy walking around the Science Center, so we became hungry.  Bill and I decided to take Nolan to the Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch.  I have very fond memories of this restaurant.  Growing up, my family and our family friends would eat at the Old Spaghetti Factory and we always had a lot of fun.  Nolan did great! He's such a ham, flirting with anyone who would look his way.  

 Nolan waiting patiently to be seated
 One of Nolan's favorite books, Brown Bear, Brown Bear...travels with us everywhere we go.
 When I was pregnant with Nolan I could not eat any type of marinara sauce without becoming sick.  Nolan still doesn't like to eat marinara sauce, so we ordered spaghetti with parmesan cheese.  Yummy!! Nolan loved the spaghetti cooked this way, which is crazy because when I was younger I would only eat my spaghetti noodles with parmesan cheese as well.
 At the Old Spaghetti Factory you have a choice of Vanilla or Spumoni ice cream.  All three of us chose Vanilla.
 One of the beautiful stain glass windows.
Lou at home with his birth certificate!! Nolan adores Lou and laughs at his pointy teeth.

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