COSI: Part 1

B and I went to the Columbus Temple, and then Grandma and Grandpa M drove the kids to Columbus and we met them at COSI, the Center of Science and Industry. It's basically a science center or science museum. B's family went there several times when he was little, although it's since changed downtown locations.


The temperature was 18 degrees when we got out of the car.


This keyboard makes a different human sound for each key.
Buddy and Grandma tested it out.


Then Princess Sparkley had a turn.


Then Princess Sparkley performed lazer eye surgery. This was a lot like that "game" you play at the eye doctors when you have to hit a trigger every time you see a red dot, except you had to line up your lazer with the centers of big, bad circles and fry their centers.




This first wing of the museum was all over Baby X's head. There was a part of this floor just for babies to kindergartners, but we didn't make it there.


This exhibit was called Progress. This part was old timey with brick roads and carriages.


The next section of Progress was the mid 1960s with diners and such.


An ice cream parlor.


Baby X checks out the mustard while PS and Buddy play diner.


Outside the "hardware shop" was this rocket ride for 10 cents (with a few dimes sitting there for use).






Baby X especially enjoyed this ride. And kept running back to it after we'd moved to other parts of the "city."




The kids really liked this internal combustion engine exhibit.


Baby X trying to make his feet push the cylinder in.


Buddy pulling his own weight on a pulley.


Baby X spent a long time chasing after all these balls.




B rode this balancing unicycle across the second floor on a tight rope.


Sorry, this one turned out blurry.


This is what it's like trying to get three kids to pose in one shot.


And that was just one floor and the Messanine.