Clark Planetarium

Today was a visit to the Clark Planetarium for one last hurrah before the girls start school here.  They especially loved the giant electricity ball.

Then the girls had a fun time on the space landscapes.  Leiden is wandering the moon without her space suit on.

Mac has gone where no one has gone before, and is posing on Mars.  Truly desolate!

Sweet Mimi posing on a moon rock.  Her forced smile gets closer to real and cuter every day.

Sisters in space.

The gift shop at the Planetarium is pretty cool.  They have all kinds of cool stuff, and some really funny stuff, too, like this bug helmet.  (Which really has nothing to do with space, but it's funny, anyway.)  Another HILARIOUS thing they had there were plush germs.  They had all kinds of things, some more appropriate than others.  There were cold germs, ebola, staph, gangrene, flesh eating bacteria, and then some even less savory germs--gonorrhea and syphilis.  Wow.  The funniest thing about them was that the plush germ was shaped the same way as the real germs themselves are shaped.  On the tags there is a blown up microscope picture of the germ and they tried to make them look the same.  We had a great time looking through the bin.

We finished off the morning at the Planetarium with a show in the Dome theater.  When we came in, the light was VERY pink and made bright colors REALLY bright.

The show was pretty intense.  The subject matter was perfectly appropriate, and in fact designed for children, but it had some fast moving parts.  Because the show takes up the whole dome of the theater, it can get a little disorienting and a lot dizzying!  I was surprised that Leiden wasn't bothered by it, because vertigo really set in with me!