Arizona Science Centre

We spent 6 hours at the Arizona Science centre today. It was lots of fun for everyone.

We started at Water Gears and Spears with lots of different ways to get wet.

 

 

 

Next we went to All About Me. The boys did wheelchair racing and Heartbeat Drums. Ryan's favourite was going into the stomach with all the sights and sounds of the digestive system.

 

 

At the Get Charged Up! area we got to lie down on a bed of nails. We experimented with balls hovering in the air and making waves.

 

 

 

   

 

 

In the Forces of Nature we went to the Immersion Centre where we got bombarded with 7 different forces of nature - Heat from Wild Fires, Hurricanes, Heat from Volcanic Eruptions, Tornado, Eathquake, Wind and Rain.

 

 

 

The boys built a dam, strengthened with rocks.

In the Digital World the boys really enjoyed the little digital men. They made some funny faces by warping their images.

 

 

 

 

 

We tried to catch some virtual sand.

 

 

 

 

The boys had a race with their brain waves. Ryan managed to calm his brain activity down the most and won the race.

 

 

 

We went back to the car for a little while to have lunch and rest our legs. After that we had a look at the CREATE workshop.

 

 

We experimented with the forces of flight.

 

 

Also created some structures with weird shaped building blocks.

 

  

 

 

Next the boys pedalled to make light bulbs work.

 

We ended with a second play with Water Gears and Spheres.

  

It was a busy day and I was exhausted by the end of it. I thought the boys would be tired too and go to bed early. But it is almost 11:00 pm now and they are still wide awake!!

 

 

The longest day ever

The 21st of May was a day that just went on and on and on...

We started the morning with a couple of soccer games. Ryan was the player of the day, but unfortunately had to give his trophy back straight away.

 

Alex's game had some sun and a bit of rain. Fortunately we were home before the big rain came.


We spent the rest of the day packing and headed to the airport in the late afternoon. Here we are all checked in and ready to fly.

We felt very welcome when we got on the plane with personalised greetings on our in-seat entertainment screens.

There wasn't much sleeping on this 12 hour flight. Alex finally went to sleep around 2:00 am NZ time and Ryan only at 4:00 am. They did not want to miss out on watching movies.

    

 

In LA it took us about 2 hours to get off the plane, through customs and to the next terminal.

After that we stood outside in the sun for a few minutes before going to check in for our next flight.
This was only a short 1 hour 15 min flight to Phoenix. Both boys got some window seats.

 

 

 

 

We got our car - a big black Mercedes GL450 4Matic . Thanks to the Sat Nav the drive to our accommodation wasn't too stressful.

 

We  had a quick shop at Food City for some dinner. We were all a bit sleep deprived by then so just grabbed essentials.

Had dinner and went to bed around 10:00 pm after a 41 hour long day!!
(plus the extra 2 hours still to come)