Virtual Corwin
I had thought we might just head back this morning, but Mom decided we should do something. Corwin had become obsessed with the coal mine exhibit for no apparent reason. Mom finally gave in and we headed back to the down town to hit the Museum. Mom took Alice off to the water play room while the men folk headed for the coal mine. We had a bit of a wait because the exhibit was short staffed but eventually we loaded up and headed in to the depths. One father had a under two year old child with him who freaked out as soon as the elevator door closed. Charles was stressing a bit but overcame his fears. Another boy about Charles’ age lost it for a bit, but eventually recovered. Corwin spent his time asking “is this going to be loud?”. Other than that, it was an interesting exhibit which I think the boys enjoyed. I found out that coal is Illinois’ second biggest industry, after corn.
I thought we were done, but Corwin decided that he needed to show an exhibit to Mom that we had found when we got lost on the way to the coal mine. This was the Net World exhibit. Mom and I were happy to earn about computers. Alice greatly enjoyed chasing words around that were projected on the floor. This was such fun that three other little girls who showed up shortly after we did started doing it as well. That’s our Alice, trend setter. But we couldn’t stop with just one thing, we ended up spending another couple of hours wandering through the rest of the connected exhibits until time had marched on far enough to put picking up Poly from her doggy vacation at risk.
After getting home and picking up Poly, we trudged in to the media room to watch Olympics.
P.S. For those wondering about the title of this post
Charles picked up something from the net world exhibit too. I was talking to him about needing to fix my network model, and he volunteered that I should just increase the capacity. Then everything would go much faster. Interesting, but unfortunately not relevant to my problem.
