Sci Quest

Sci Quest is a very cool science museum shown to us over the weekend by Stacy and her husband Stephen. My sisters and I knew Stacy in high school and it turns out she's been living here in Huntsville for awhile. I can't tell you how great it's been coming into town and already having a friend with kids to help show us around. They have two little girls, Anna who is a little older than Olivia and Sara who is soon to be 1.

The museum has all sorts of hands on things to see and do. The kids had a ball and completely wore themselves out. I was actually a bit disappointed that I had to watch them and couldn't play with all the exhibits myself! I didn't actually catch the point of the one below but you could stand on it and spin around (kinda like the old sit-n-spins!). Anna and Olivia did it for a bit and then of course Dave had to get in on the action too.

He was sooooo funny when he got off, took him two or three minutes to walk straight! The next one is a park bench that you sit on and they simulate an Earthquake. I got to ride this one with Anna myself. Pretty cool!


The next one was neat, a life size Operation Game with rubber life sized body parts that you pull out with metal tongs just like the game!



I thought Olivia was doing really good until I found out she raided Anna's bin of parts too and put them all in hers. :-)

While there were actually quite a few of activities that Dave could do he decided it would just be more fun to run.
They had a big bubble table with some really big rings to make bubbles with.


Dave's still running :-)

Sara had to stay in the stroller most of the time but she is very good natured and didn't really seem to mind too much.
You can't see it from the picture angle but this one had a series of lights on a pole that you could light up by pedaling from the bench where the girls are sitting.

I didn't get any pictures of the part that the kids liked the best, a life sized yellow house that had a tree house (with slide) attached and was filled with giant Lego blocks, a fully stocked play kitchen and other things for them to do. I was too busy playing then and running after Dave :-) Like I said though it was a great find. We went ahead and got a membership it wasn't much and it pays for itself in two visits. It's definitely a place I can see us going back to on these really hot or rainy days when you just want to get out of the house and do something different and fun.