Skip to main content

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.    

Comments

  1. Adam ZorraNovember 2, 2017 at 9:18 PM

    I have never been to a exploratorium and it sounds amazing but the dark tunnel thing is out of the question for me. I am so unbelievably scared of the dark. I know I don't sound cool saying that but hey all men are afraid of something even though they act like they're not and I am not insecure LOL . I am so glad you had fun and by the way IKEA is my favorite store cause the food rocks!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousDecember 3, 2018 at 4:27 PM

    Haha, yep, I had a great time!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

LAKE CHABOT, WHERE THE MOUNTAIN LIONS ROAM!

On the 7th and 8th of April 2018, my family went on a vacation to a camping spot we all know and love. Anthony Chabot is a beautiful eucalyptus forest encased by gorgeous rolling green hills. We call the campground: Lake Chabot, because there is a amazing green lake that laps the land below the campground. Yet, the lake is diagnosed with a sort of lethal allergy that prohibits swimming. Too bad, you might be thinking. But, its not that bad. There is hikes that loop about the campground, and being close to Tilden Little Farm, we went there and hiked a majestic hike called Sylvan Trail, (we suffered much gobs of mud from the rain) that led us to an stony overlook that covered all of San Francisco, the Golden Gate, and more! Now, you might know what to do when you see a mountain lion sashaying across your path in he wilderness. You make yourself as loud and big as possible (even if it includes taking your shirt off) and throwing items at it until it runs away. This probably won...
1 comment
Read more

Google Translate a Song In 5 Easy Steps!!!

Hi everybody! Today I'm back with a post about one of my latest favorite past-times: Translating popular theme songs, pop songs, and others through Google Translate several times. It may seem confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it's not that hard. I will be revealing the simple steps to creating your new song . .   First you have to remember you are using Google Translate, one of the most unreliable Google apps. When you want to say " Hey, how are you?" in a different language, you might as well be saying: " Hey, goldfish socks?" Usually Google Translate translates correctly. But not always. I have experienced this myself with using Swedish. So to prove Google Translate wrong, several people have taken a popular song (I did Stressed Out, by Twenty Øne Piløts) and translated it through several different languages, then back into English. The results are hideous! Not only can somebody not recognize the song, the lyrics are completely crazy! Fo...
2 comments
Read more

Craft Extravaganza!!!

Every year around early October the Modesto Library hosts an amazing craft fair with over 50 kids every year selling homemade crafts. We tried hard to do it last year, but time crept up and ran out very fast. So that was unfortunately unsuccessful. But this year, we started creating about August and kept it up until October 14th, 2017, the date of the Craft Fair. Our friends decided to do it too, and created lots of crafts each, and so did we. I created my shop--" The Hobo's Lair", and weaved potholders galore (the most unpopular too) and themed bookmarks galore (those sold fast but in slow amounts of time) and recycled t-shirt bags, (which sold like hotcakes!) My sister sold Thwaps in the "Thwap Shop", a copyrighted-(don't tell!) creature from the Wingfeather Sagas by Andrew Peterson. They are pom-pom creatures with google eyes and paper/plastic/wooden/fabric and more accessories. They sold, " Like moldy hotcakes!" she later announced, bu...
3 comments
Read more