Night with the Stars

Why does this girl look so happy you ask? Well, she is waiting for the special night at the Arizona Museum of Natural History (called "Night with the Stars") to start. But that isn't what has her giggling like a little school girl...
It's her daddy! He looks like a regular Hannah Montana, but really, he was more of an inspirational speaker. Saying things like "Noelle.... I'm going to tickle you". We got to the museum a little early, so daddy entertained us. Eventually the museum opened and we were able to tour the new Hubble exhibit at the museum and enjoy many different activities they had going on.
In the following picture, Melanie and Noelle are using play dough to make the 9 planets (because they were still considering Plato a planet) and compare the different sizes. It was definitely a fun activity.
At the Exploration Station we got to make solar systems using scratch paper, color solar systems and assemble a puzzle.

Eventually we made it to the new exhibit. It was really neat. There are a lot of amazing space pictures, just beautiful. ASU students were there to answer questions and help people learn more about space.

After checking out the new exhibit, we went to the top level of the next door parking structure to look at the moon and stars through some special telescopes. The moon was quite impressive. The stars... well, I was underwhelmed. The guy was so excited to tell me all about the star I was about to see... but looking through the scope, all I saw was a tiny dot.

At any rate, it was a really fun night at the museum. A side story... Brandon jokingly told Melanie that he was going to feed her to the dinosaurs when the sun goes down, because that's when everything comes to life. She worried about that literally the rest of the night (even after I told and re-told her that it was just a joke and that the dinosaurs wouldn't be coming to life.) oops!

Also... on the way home from the museum my husband got himself in a little trouble... I share this jokingly. He actually started a sentence with "The strangest people, besides engineers, are..." Now, it doesn't really matter WHAT he finished the sentence with. He could have said "carnies" for all it mattered... it's the "besides engineers" that got his goose cooked. It's a good thing I love that boy! :)