Today we checked out the Museum of Science, which is the best birth control I’ve ever used.  There were roughly a million rugrats running around touching everything and screaming.

We bought tickets to the planetarium show “Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun” which was fabulous and mind blowing. I can’t help but feel completely insignificant when presented with how big our world is, how immense our galaxy is, and how ridiculously mind-boggling big our universe is.

The museum has several different exhibits going on, one which was random and we spend about 30 seconds in: the tamarin family within the Human Body Connection exhibit.  See below.  I apologize for it being blurry, but those things are FAST.

To continue our birth control tour, we checked out “How Your Life Began,” which begins with a count of the world population–scary!  It also has a video of a live birth which was shocking for me (and mind you, I have recently witnessed a live birth first hand), I can only imagine the trauma it caused for the several small children who watched in awe while their parents ignored them.  Jason overheard a small girl ask her mother “Mommy, did it hurt when you gave birth to me?”  Her response was “A little, but then they gave me a shot…”

Then we got to the hands-on areas.  They were a lot of fun!  Like the light exhibit, where I found a wall of mirrors and decided to do a self portrait (and a couple portrait).

Here’s an interesting test of my flash.  The moon, below, 1) with flash, 2) without flash.

This was a random group of wooden stick figures, found in the renewable energy section.  They LOVE light.

And another couple portrait: the infrared camera shot.

At some point before lunch we went to the “What I Eat: Around the World In 25 Diets” exhibit.  They photographed 25 people around the world and what they typically eat in a day, in order of how many calories they consume.  It was probably silly to see that particular exhibit right before lunch.

While we were waiting for the electricity theater we stumbled upon the biggest lightbulb in the world: 50,000 watts!

And then of course, the electricity theater, where we witnessed the creation of lightning. And I had one hell of a time capturing it!

For dinner we went out with Richard and Barbara to Island Creek Oyster Bar, where I had the best chowdah of my life.  Witness the wall of shells: