Parque de las Sciencias

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I went to this really great science museum and spent the whole afternoon there by myself, running around like a little kid and playing with all the hands-on exhibits. I had a little too much fun.

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This thing was really cool for demonstrating how erosion works...

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I want to find a copy of this book in English:

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It's full of letters that children wrote to Einstein.
This was one of the few written in English:

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A three-way mirror and a camera can offer hours of entertainment

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this one was cool too

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There's no point to this next picture except to remind me of what it is...Remember those rooms (there was one at Sesame Place) where a flash goes off every few seconds and it freezes a shadow of you on the wall? Anyway, there was a group of German guys who walked into the room and didn't know what it did so they left. Boy, were they missing out! I had a blast in there! It's just too bad you can't take a picture of your shadow. If you could you would have seen how cool this one was:

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Learning how lenses work...

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I love hands on learning. I've seen this a million times in science books but nothing got the point across quite like this.

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The magical floating ball...

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I LOVED this! it was just a panel mounted on an angle that you could pivot around depending on where the sun was. It was attached to a fountain and you could watch the water shoot higher the more you pointed it towards the sun. I didn't explain that very well, but it was a great demonstration of solar power.

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There was actually a whole section dedicated to alternative energy.

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Solar thermal

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Look! I'm standing on Spain! (see Italy in the background? It's a big map.)

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I have ALWAYS wanted to go in a butterfly house!

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THEN! to top things off...they have this whole traveling exhibit on the arctic/global warming!!

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To get into the main exhibit you have to watch a video that asks you if you can handle the cold...then, if you are willing, they walk you through a giant freezer so you can feel what it's like in the arctic...ooh, cool. And you can sign up to be a polar cadet. yeah!
It was actually pretty funny. But I braved the cold. brrrrrrr

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Back outside...

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Up the observation tower.

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The human sun dial. It was actually 4:30p when I took this picture:

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My and my pal Einstein:

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