On Thursday we went to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) with Lisa and her two youngest, Spencer and Aneya. OMSI is such a cool place! It's everything about science you could imagine, and it's all hands on for the kids. For example they had this machine that let you put air and water into a 2 liter soda bottle and then it would blast up in the air. The point was to experiment with the right combo of air and water to see what made the bottle shoot up the highest. It had tons of stuff like that.
One of the rooms was an animal room, and they had lots of things like rats, frogs, fish, bugs, etc in cages to look at. One of the workers got out this walking stick for us to look at. It was really cool, especially when we put it under the microscope.
They have an AWESOME room for preschool and younger aged kids. Honestly, we could have spent hours and hours and hours and HOURS in this room. They have a sand box area, with all sorts of cool sand toys, a couple of water tables, a squirrel room where kids could put on little squirrel outfits and gather nuts and stash them in a big tree, blocks, balls, an arts and crafts room where we made flubber...and the list goes on. It was really fun. The kids had a great time.
Another really cool thing they have at OMSI is this room where they have these little vacuum like stations all over and then pieces of piping, and little soft foam balls. Then you get to attach the piping to the different vacuums in any way you want and you can suck up the balls or blow them out, and they have targets and baskets, and all sorts of cool things that the balls can go through. I think Aaron could have spent all day in this room. :)On Friday night, Aaron's parents watched our children and Aaron took me to a fancy dinner in Portland. We ate at Macaroni Grill, on of my favorite places. We haven't eaten there since our honeymoon. We ate outside on the patio. It was really nice. The food was excellent, and the company was even better. Especially since I got to focus all my attention on Aaron, with no kids to be distracting or throwing food, or what not. It was fun to actually date my husband again, at least for one night. I'd kind of forgotten what that was like. After dinner we walked down to the Willamette river. Then we went to Borders bookstore and just looked around until Aaron got tired of it (I could spend my whole life in a bookstore, probably). Then we headed home.