Discovery Cube!!!

For his birthday last year, Bell and Steve gave Finn his choice between a trip to the Aquarium or a trip to the Discovery Cube. Finn was quite torn, because he loves everything having to do with the ocean, but when he found out there was a special bat exhibit at the Discovery Cube, he was sold. Of course it's taken us many moons to get there, but we finally made it this past Saturday, although without daddy (this is an Em report).


We've driven past the Discovery Cube, which is off of the 5 freeway in Irvine, many, many times and always been intrigued by just what there was there to be discovered. It turns out - there's quite a lot!


We don't have any pictures from the bat exhibit, because it was very dark, but we had a great time there. Finn's favorite part were some enormous bat ears that you could stick your head inbetween so that you could hear the way that a bat hears.




















Bell and Finn pushed their hands and faces into a pin wall. I never realized how much Bell looks like Han Solo! The next picture is Jack and a tornado. It's kind of hard to see, because the tornado is designed so that kids can disrupt the airflow - as Jack is doing here with a kiss - but as soon as the kids step back, it turns right back into an Oz-worthy storm.

It turns out that the dinosaur (who you can see from the freeway) is an enormous brachiosaurus that the kids can run through. It was hard to do him justice, but his entire mid-section is open so that you can see the food he is eating moving through his digestive track - and I do mean all the way through. That's right, the next picture is a picture of Jack playing on a mountain of dinosaur poop.

Finn and Bell also braved a 3D dinosaur movie that was apparently really cool, but a little scary. Good thing Jack kept me company outside.

The giant cube (which you can also see from the freeway) turned out to be an enormous solar panel that partially-powers the museum. There was also a geyser, a machine that kids could make whirlpools with, a wind tunnel, a very cool play area for little kids with a Yellow submarine that made bubble noises when you were inside it, and many, many other amazing things to discover.

Pretty neat, huh? We thought so! Thanks Aunt Bell and Uncle Steve!!!