Friday, July 19, 2013

POST#78: MUSEO DEL NINO DE CAROLINA


Hey guys! Today I went to the Kids Museum in Carolina. We arrived and we entered and saw this huge fake volcano that had a mini rock climbing wall and a really cool slide. Then we moved on to a Mini City attraction where there was a pretend supermarket, a pretend police station, a pretend TV studio, etc. Then we went of to the Marine Life station and there was like a mini aquarium inside. After that, we went to the Transportation Vehicles station and we had like a little minigame contest. Then, we went up to the second floor and went to the Recycling and Alternate Energy station, where we generated our own electricity by pedaling, to give you guys an example. After that, we went to the Music and Arts station. There was like a thingmajig made of drums and there was a touchscreen where you chose what beats you wanted it to play it, and then it played back all the beats in order. There was also a stringless laser sensor harp, and a stop motion animation camera. Then we ate lunch, took a break, and then moved to the Aquatics station and there was a boat which modeled after a yacht, and there was like a little game where you tried to catch magnetic toy fish. We also went to a hurricane wind simulator. In there, you choose what wind speed would you want and then pressed a button and the wind comes to you. I chose 91 mph winds and they didn't even knock me off my feet! Then we moved on the the Solar System station, where we obviously learned about the Solar System and galaxies. After that, we went to the Energy and Physics station and we saw a huge mural of Albert Einstein, and after that we went to the Magnetism station, and we made sculptures with magnetic objects. Then we went to the Nail Bed. The Nail Bed is a plastic bed that has little holes from which the nails rise. You lay on the bed with your head on a pillow, then a worker presses a button and the nails slowly start rising. The nails don't poke you because when you put all your body weight on one nail, it pokes you. But when you rest all your body weight on lots of nails, they won't poke you because they distribute your weight evenly. After that we went to the Airplane. The Airplane is an American Airlines MD-80 and is 107 feet wide (from wing to wing), and 147 feet long. It has 73,655 hours of airtime. The last flight flown on the plane was from Tulsa Int'l Airport to San Juan Int'l Airport on January 6th, 2011, and American Airlines donated the plane over to the Museum. After giving us a talk about the plane and aircraft in general, we left the place. 

It was AWESOME!!!! I had never gone before and it was really fun. I give it a 10 out of a 10 and 5 stars out of 5 stars.


Happy weekend!



Maria.

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