Science Center and Muster

Last Sunday was April, 21. And for Aggies everywhere, this is a special day to remember the lives of fellow Aggies lost this year and remember the good days in Aggieland. Normally, we try to attend a Muster event in the area (and in Oshkosh we even coordinated the Muster gathering).   This year, Justin was contacted by a friend of his from college who had just recently moved to Illinois. So, we decided to meet her in St. Louis for a Muster dinner.

We decided to go to St. Louis in the early afternoon to check out the St. Louis Science Center. When we arrived we first headed over the sky walk. Both boys were pretty impressed by the windows in the floor.


The first area we stopped at was the flight simulator. Justin helped Garytt fly a plane.


Based on the type of flying Garytt enjoys, he might consider being a part of the stunt show at EAA in a few years...ha!


Westyn played with a toy plane and runway while we waited for Garytt and Justin.  (By the way, this was not nearly as entertaining.)


After that, we stopped by an exhibit about bridges. Garytt enjoyed putting the bridges up and then letting the cars fall in the the "river."


After that we headed to the "Discovery Room." This was part of the science center that you had to have tickets for (the science center itself is free). We asked what all was in the discovery room before we bought the tickets. From the description on their website and what we were told, I really thought it was going to have directed science experiments that were geared for ages 3-7. In actuality, it is essentially a big play room with toys at their level.

With that said, I wouldn't have been thrilled if we had actually had to pay to get in. Fortunately, since we have a membership to Science City in Kansas City, this was part of the reciprocal program benefit. So, for a free thing, we thought the Discovery Room was great because it was contained and we could monitor the boys without having to infringe on their discovery.


Westyn's favorite thing in the Discovery Room was the watching the balls go down the tower. He did that for a long time! (Do you hear the loud bells in the background...yeah, that's Garytt...he loved the bells...I'm just not sure everyone else did...ha!)
Garytt did a lot more moving around to different stations. He was pretty impressed with the magnetic doll (a novelty in a house with all boys). He was proud of himself when he made a police/fireman super hero. And, truly, policeman and firemen are super heroes!


So, apparently, I didn't plan this too well because my camera battery was about to die right as we were leaving the Discovery Room. I didn't take pictures during the rest of our time at the science center because I wanted to save enough battery to get a picture of our Muster group. We looked around the science center for a bit longer. Then it was clearly time to take a break. The boys were asleep almost instantly in the car. So, we drove around for about 45 minutes before meeting Justin's friend for dinner. 

We enjoyed chatting about the good 'ol days at A&M and our server was kind enough to take a picture for us. This is the smallest Muster I have ever been to but it's good to keep the tradition alive.


"Softly call the Muster, let comrade answer 'Here'..."