Yesterday we packed up all the kids and drove over to the planetarium to see the IMAX film "Bugs" in 3D. On the way up the long, winding staircase to the upper level from the parking garage, my eight-year old said, "Mom, Dad, you should be aware that I am afraid of heights."
As I predicted, the spider dropping down in front of the kids' noses drove them a little batty. My five-year-old pulled his glasses off so he didn't have to look at it. I noticed he was plugging his ears much of the time, too. He can't take loud noises. (He's afraid of automatic toilets for that reason. He won't go in a public restroom if he thinks the toilets are going to flush by themselves.)My buddy, Scott, works for the planetarium and he got us in for free. He then bought several rolls of pennies for the kids to put in the "black hole" display. There's a slot that you put the penny in and it shoots out, rolling in an elipse toward the center, in which a black hole awaits. I think we had 10 or 15 coins streaking around it at once. We soon became the center of attention, as a crowd of kids gathered to watch and participate with the help of Scott's generosity. It was a little annoying when all the kids but mine started flicking the coins off course with their fingers or blowing on them. Scott is much more patient than I am. He'd be a good father, but he doesn't have kids. Maybe that's the secret to his patience with them. Princess Rufflebutt was asleep for about half of the film, but the noise woke her up and she spent the remainder staring, fascinated, at the fifteen-story moving blur in front of her.
The kids were also entertained by the rest of the attractions. There's a place where you can walk on "Mars" and on the "Moon," and model that depicts the size of the planets that was a lot of fun to look at. All in all, we had a good time.
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