explOratorium

My family and my friend's family have been doing a science co-op since 2015, and to celebrate finishing our study of physics we went to the explOrotorium on Tuesday. My aunt and uncle gave us a membership pass so we are now members. The month we went was May, 2017, and for the explOrotorium the month May is Member May, so we got free tickets to the Tactile Dome, a gargantuan black dome in the middle of the science museum that requires sense of touch. It is all uncomfortable blackness which you have to slide, stand, walk and crawl your way through the whole tunnel.It was so dark I felt like Bilbo Baggins when he arrived at Mirkwood. At first you climb up and up until you get to an area where you have to slide down. At that point I felt claustrophobic and tight and I asked to be let out. Everyone else said it was their favorite thing in the whole museum (except my friend's little brother) but my all time favorite was the Tinker Lab. There you can animate your own little videos with wooden toys, and watch these videos of a guy who makes spaghetti out of rubber bands, and pincushion tomatoes, and white yarn for cheese, and a Rubik's Cube piece for garlic, and etcetera. I like make-believe, and I thought it was creative of him to use objects that no one would have thought of using to imagine a plate of spaghetti. After the explOratorium closed, (we were the last ones out,) we went to a park and played for a little while; then went to IKEA and ate dinner at the cafeteria and shopped, and guess what! We just barely got out right as it closed! We got home at eleven, and the day was accomplished.