Scattered Thoughts . . .

After writing about outdoors in a previous blog entry, now, we'll visit indoors at the Montshire Museum of Science. Sheila had been to the Montshire many times before with her own children when they were young children so there were no surprises for her nor was there much discovering for her to do. I, however, had never visited this museum before so it was all new to me... same for Lukey and Kenzie. It was a time to discover new territory! The entrance of the museum is very nice... clean, very well organized, and the task lighting throughout the museum is very effective and it creates a nice mood. We quickly and easily paid our admission at the front desk and moved into all the science exhibits and interactive stations. Once we showed Lukey and Kenzie what to do at these mirrors (the lead photo here), they had a lot of fun trying different things! At first, when I pointed out this mirror, I think they were saying to themselves, "so what?... it's a mirror, Papa..

Since I have so many photos of our time at the Montshire Museum of Science, I decided it would be best to break this topic into two parts.  First, let's talk about outdoors at the museum and share a few of those photos. We accessed the outdoor part of this science museum by way of one of the upper floors of the museum from quite a dizzying height! (I used to scale buildings and dizzying rock faces when my health was better but, since procuring Systemic Mastocytosis, I now find myself dizzy when just standing on my own two feet... and a step stool might as well be a tower. I have to say that the top floor balcony at the museum made me a little queasy!) Exiting the museum from the second floor brought us out onto a deck and wood bridge. This long wooden bridge crosses over the driveway to the museum so we had already seen this bridge from our car when we were arriving at the museum. It is an impressive structure. It is hard to see here because it is such a long distance bu