They blinded us with science

Today close friends invited us to join them on an outing to our local science emporium for the young and young at heart, Science Central. Ian was working, which is unfortunate because he missed a wonderful afternoon filled with friends, water, boats, bubbles, mirrors, clouds, mini tornadoes, a hot air balloon, shadows, echoes, a rocket, live animals (insert Nora's emphatic shrieks of glee here), pulleys, a simulated moon walk, a crooked fun house, and much more. Plus Fiona, Helena, and Paul even pretended to be sewer rats climbing through underground sewers while Heather, Nora, and I waved at them through a one-way mirror. We hear it was deliciously dark under there!

During dinner afterwards, Fiona told me she wants to go there every day. I don't know whether the zoo opening will sway her at all, but it's certainly clear that all six of us had an intensely interesting, pleasant, and hands-on afternoon.