Science is Fun!

ES and I headed down to spend the day in Portland on Saturday.  Our visit stop was to see Grandma, who is as fiery as ever despite being a quite a bit weary in body.  She was having a pretty good day and we all got to visit outside on the back patio.

My dad picked up tickets to OSMI for us – The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.  I hadn’t been there since I was a kid.  I love Science museums or really anything that makes science interesting and “cool” while still getting people interested (and teaching them something too).  The special exhibit was CSI:  The Experience.  Saw a few things that were a little familiar to me…I explained some of the biology and chemistry tests to my parents (at least all that science education has come in handy).

ES and I goofed around at the thermal imaging exhibit and tried our hand as “weather people” and the green screen.  I really thought if you were wearing green, it wouldn’t work and you’d blend into the screen (or at least the part of you that was green…).  I was wearing a green sweater, but no such luck!

 

We saw the OMNI Max picture “Adrenaline Rush,” in which I actually had to shut my eyes about 15 min in.  I was getting so dizzy watching those guys parachute over and over and over again.

We took a stroll along the waterfront and spotted the hotel ES and I had our wedding reception at – The RiverPlace Hotel in Portland.  Highly recommended if you’re coming to   The Rose City.

We finished out the day at a vunderbar German restaurant.  We had fresh pretzels (with really hot spicy mustard!) and snitchzel.  Excellent dinner.