OMSI

Trent, Kirsten, Amy, Matthew & I spent an afternoon at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry. We had a great time exploring the exhibits:

The Water Rocket was the first thing Matthew wanted to do. He pumped air and water into a plastic bottle and when he felt he had enough he launched it to see how high it would go. I think his ended up on Mars!

Next we played with air!!! We put balls in tubes and watched the air make them rise. See the blue ball? It's floating!!!!

More air fun was making paper cups into shapes we thought would float best.

We toured a submarine named Blueback that has been out of commission for a while. It was fun to learn about how it ran and how the people lived on board for a long period of time.

The dinosaur exhibit was pretty amazing. I'm glad we don't have them around today!!! Too big and scary looking and I saw the movie Jurasic Park!!!

Here Kirsten & Matthew are making streams suitable for salmon to thrive. They had a lot of fun playing in the water and moving the sand around while fresh water poured in from upstream!