Another relaxing and fun day - this time in Denver - Colorado - The Mile High City.
Denver is small. The population claims to be 2.5million - but we think that covers Boulder and the surrounding areas. Downtown Denver is like Plymouth - on a small scale...small.
But size is not everything - and Denver was good fun.
We started with the Childrens Museum - initially we thought this might be a little young for the kids (first exhibit was a fire-truck) but we soon discovered the woodwork section where James started to build a wooden 'man' and Olivia (with my expert help) made a Turtle out of wood, an egg box and some imagination. An hour later after much drilling, sawing and screwing of screws - James had a man-like wooden figure. It is actually quite good in a modern art, wood craft kinda-way.
Next stop was lunch and our second visit to the calorific Cheesecake Factory. This is a great place to eat if you want to die of heart disease at a young age. We loved it. But might have to ration future visits.
Now on to the Science and Nature Museum - which in Lonely Planet got barely a mention - but in our opinion was the best museum EVER!
We only had time for two exibits - Planets and Health.
In the Planets section we spoke to a man on Mars, travelled the universe, docked the space shuttle and examined metorites.
In the Health section we each got our own personal credit card. At each exhibit you used it to log details about yourself - your heat rate, how fast you cycle, how long your stride was etc. It was great fun and very educational. The best section was the labratory where we all put on white coats, rubber gloves and goggles and did an experiment to work out the % sugar content of two cereals - Cheerios and Captain Crunch.
We had to mix the cereal and stir it in a special magnet stirrer. Then it was on to the centrefuge to seperate the the sugars. Then into a special sugar content measuring device....to work out that Cheerios had 2% sugar and the Captain Crunch was 5%.
This was a great thing for the kids. They felt like real scientists. It was a great set up in this museum - wonderful staff and great equipment.
IF YOU ARE EVER IN DENVER GO TO THIS MUSEUM.
A relaxing night at a Mexican restaurant followed.
Photos will follow - the kids in labcoats are great....but Emma has left her camera in the car!
Ken
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