Museum Hopper

A few weeks ago, we were visiting my parents while my sister, niece (4.5) and nephew (6.5) were in town.  On the anniversary of Apollo 11 , we headed to the Detroit Science Center .   We chose to head downtown -- with my nephew so excited.  Obviously.  It turns out that the museum was free for the month sponsored in honor of Apollo.   We headed to the basement first.  We did a lot of playing with pulleys and magnets and lights and gears.  They had a lot of fun with a 500 lb with the pulley. Depending on where the pulleys are, the weight "feels" different -- they thought that was amazing.   They had water rockets -- unfortunately, one of them did not seal as well as the other one.  It seemed like there were a number of exhibits that were just not quite  right.  Some of the gears had been stripped in one exhibit.  Another one, when you pressed the buttons, nothing happened.   We did end up going t...

happy holidays!  over the break, my boyfriend and i decided to go to detroit and check out the detroit science center .  if you can't tell the trend, my boyfriend likes the science, hands on museums.  we headed down there for an afternoon of fun. we got there around 2 and were able to park in the lot right outside the front of the museum.  this parking lot was a "drop the parking money in the box" type of lot, so be sure to have exact change ($5);  otherwise you will need to go into the museum to get it. so, we headed in and checked out the speed section, which had famous cars, boats, motor racing as well as celebratory plaques of famous and innovators in the fields.  we then walked further into the rest of the museum.  we were first struck that a few portions of it were closed for repairs or maybe renovations.  i liked the energy portion about fueling cars.  we then wandered through the health and body section, which was interesting....