St. Louis Science Center and Planetarium

Betty had the month of July off from work, and Mark has a flexible summer schedule, so we took several fun trips during the month. First stop was the St. Louis Science Center and Planetarium. This cool statue was at the entrance to the planetarium, and it was called looking up - quite appropriate. 

The boys have been wanting to visit a planetarium for quite some time, so I was glad we finally got the chance to go. This was the only picture I took inside of Mark and the boys in the best seats in the house, because we were not supposed to take pictures. It was a really good show - they talked about what we would see in the sky from St. Louis that night, to include 5 planets ( Mars, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter) and the constellations. We all learned a lot and enjoyed the show, and that night I think we spotted all 5 of the planets in the sky!

Afterwards, we walked over to the Science Center. The boys went last time we came, but this was my first time. It's a really nice museum and lots to see and do. The kids built an arch out of blocks. It definitely required tall adults help and was hard to do. They had equally as much fun knocking it down afterwards :).

These machines are always a hit...we had to drag them away.

The museum has a discovery room that you get tickets to visit for an hour, with all kinds of hands-on exhibits for kids.

They even got to build their own straw propelled rockets.

Caleb was happy to get a scorpion necklace, since that is the mascot for their school in Jordan.

It was a really fun day together.

And ended with dinner at chick-fil-a...always a winner!