08/15/10 - It's a Geyser!<br />
Our trip yesterday to The Museum of Life and Science in Durham for Engineers Day couldn't have been better!  We got there around 10 and left around 5 and just didn't have enough time to do everything we wanted to do.  Here Mentos Man has set off a geyser putting 11 Mentos into a Diet Coke.  Have you ever seen this?  It's a great way to entertain the kids.  Just make sure you have several bottles of sodas and tubes of Mentos because once is just not enough.  The Museum sells a kit in the gift shop, and you can get a similar one on Amazon:<br />
<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Be-Amazing-Geyser-Tube-Card/dp/B000NP7PD2">http://www.amazon.com/Be-Amazing-Geyser-Tube-Card/dp/B000NP7PD2</a><br />
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Anyway, we watched 2 geysers, and the first time I was behind the kids and just got the geyser then I thought how cool to get the geyser and the kids in the same shot.  Let's just say I am pleased with the expressions I got!  I do not know the family on the left, but Johnny is in orange, Madi in white, and Joey in blue.<br />
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I dumped all the museum pics into my August album for now.  Here's a collage of the top 16 pics:<br />
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This video is worth watching if you enjoy music:<br />
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I didn't quite understand the technology, but the cello is connected to the computer and is recognizing harmonics and creating a whole orchestra of sound on the go as the gentleman plays.  So beautiful sounding I thought.<br />
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The team of IBM volunteers did a great job as the event partner again this year hosting a hands-on exploration activities.  Favorites of the kids were dropping an egg all wrapped up in recyclables and trying not to break it, taking apart a computer keyboard and mouse, racing the remote control rover bots, and using 10 gumdrops and toothpicks to see who could build the tallest tower.<br />
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Every year we go we learn something new and certainly have a lot of fun.<br />
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Thank you all for your comments on my Glowing Butterfly from yesterday...  I showed the picture to the kids, and they were begging me to take a picture of them and to please make it glow:-)<br />
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HAGD,<br />
Maryann<br />
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My blogpost about the day is up here:<br /> <a href="http://maryanng.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-geyser-and-more-at-engineers-day.html">http://maryanng.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-geyser-and-more-at-engineers-day.html</a><br />
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