A Day Out

Yesterday was homeschool day at The Clay Center, so we packed up and headed for the capital city. It wasn't extremely early but still early enough that the fog hadn't burned off yet. Charleston looked like Cloud City. The mist was all entwined with the big buildings and the mountains. It was so beautiful; I gave my camera to Adam to take some pictures. What I ended up with were several shots of the van's interior and some blurry buildings. I guess it didn't help that we were traveling at 60mph.

We arrived just in time for a movie in the Electric Sky Theatre. They play movies in the planetarium. very. cool. The film of the day was Journey Into Amazing Caves. It truly was amazing. But the coolest thing for the boys was that the film was narrated by Qui-Gon-Jin, aka Liam Neeson.

After the movie we played in the science galleries. We made some stop-action movies, built an arch, played the drums, a ukelele, and a giant floor piano, and lots of other fun stuff. Daddy met us for lunch and then we played some more.


We ended the day in Stuffee's Kitchen. We were the only people there for the 2pm show but we almost filled up the front row, with Matthew taking a seat in the very back, just like an unsocialized home schooler. LOL We spent months last spring learning about the human body. My boys could name every organ in the digestive system. So, you'd think when the intructor started pulling out Stuffee's organs that they'd be calling out the answers while I basked in the rays of their intelligence. Instead they sat there and stared. I think their mouths were even hanging open a bit and maybe one of them was drooling. Then Adam decided it would be funny to call out the wrong answers. I elbowed him and, finally, they started giving the right answers. The show ended with free water bottles and Matthew slinked up front to grab one and then hurried back to his corner. He's been drinking water from that bottle all day. I'm just waiting for him to pee in the floor.