A few weekends ago we capitalized on the combination of a rainy day and some free tickets (courtesy of our local library) to finally visit CuriOdyssey, a small science center that has a few exhibits to tinker with and a few animals. For a very small center, it was fairly entertaining.
Unsurprisingly, it was pretty difficult to get Jory to interact with any of the exhibits in ways other than banging on them, but we gave it our best shot:
I think we all enjoyed the animal exhibits a bit more. Here's Jory's attempt to communicate with a seriously annoyed bobcat (apparently there's not a cat on earth that likes Jory):
And here you can see the guys watching an otter do a back flip off the aquarium wall:
The birds of prey show was a bit of a bust, since Jory's not big on sitting still. I was actually shocked that his screeches didn't unsettle the birds. And that none of the bigger birds were interested in an 18-lb afternoon snack.
On the way home we followed a few signs to a giant playground in the same park. The playground was called the Magic Mountain, and it looked super cool at first. It turned out these dragons were the best part of the playground:
There was a GIANT slide that looked like a castle, and we thought, fantastic! I ran up the steps to test out the slide to make sure that it wasn't too scary for Jory.
I ended up having to walk down the slide because it was too sticky to slide on! I think of this as a prime example of California dysfunction - spending a ton of money on a slide you can't use. It's supposedly one of the longest enclosed slides in California ... but you can't slide on it.
But the not-so-magic mountain aside, we'd had a great day not too far from home.
Unsurprisingly, it was pretty difficult to get Jory to interact with any of the exhibits in ways other than banging on them, but we gave it our best shot:
I think we all enjoyed the animal exhibits a bit more. Here's Jory's attempt to communicate with a seriously annoyed bobcat (apparently there's not a cat on earth that likes Jory):
And here you can see the guys watching an otter do a back flip off the aquarium wall:
The birds of prey show was a bit of a bust, since Jory's not big on sitting still. I was actually shocked that his screeches didn't unsettle the birds. And that none of the bigger birds were interested in an 18-lb afternoon snack.
On the way home we followed a few signs to a giant playground in the same park. The playground was called the Magic Mountain, and it looked super cool at first. It turned out these dragons were the best part of the playground:
There was a GIANT slide that looked like a castle, and we thought, fantastic! I ran up the steps to test out the slide to make sure that it wasn't too scary for Jory.
I ended up having to walk down the slide because it was too sticky to slide on! I think of this as a prime example of California dysfunction - spending a ton of money on a slide you can't use. It's supposedly one of the longest enclosed slides in California ... but you can't slide on it.
But the not-so-magic mountain aside, we'd had a great day not too far from home.
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