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Science Museum II |
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2003 London: The Science Museum II
Monday 3 February 2003, continued
We make a return visit to the Natural History Museum.
After a short while the kids are used up, and we return to the Science Museum, which is more age-appropriate.
The wheel landing gear from an Airbus A320 is a great favorite of our jet-setting clan.
 Yet again the colossal steam engine (from an old mill) absolutely captivates young and old. The sounds of this thing are so soothing, the mechanism so large, colorful, and powerful.
 A snack-break is taken in the basement toddler eating area. We head off to the Garden (toddlers) and the Launch Pad (slightly older) exploration areas.
 Isaac loves using the hand-cranks to send bubbles of air through the heavy oil. Blurp!
 And he's absolutely posessive of the self-correcting train wheel simulation.
 The little bridge is usually Lila's specialty - she was hoisting herself up it today - but as she'd run off I caught Isaac charging across the span.
 When I finally catch up to the girls club, they're taking a short break from the counter-weighted construction trucks. Filling them with grain and watching them race up the ramp can be exhausting, especially after a few dozen times.
 Lila is also pretty impressed with centripital force. Here she's watching someone demonstrate what happens to a figure skater as they raise their arms (to move their mass towards their center and spin faster). I've never been made so dizzy so quickly as on this thing!
 The three of us - Isaac is still back at the train track - visit a fun-house of mirrors. This is the tall-and-thin distortion.
 Here's the short-and-fat one.
 Next, we finish up our day with the worst food so far...
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