Discovery Place

While Mike and I were wandering around Charlotte, we saw the Discovery Place Museum. I thought it was a children's museum (and it is) and that you needed to have a child with you to be admitted. Mike wanted to check anyway and I'm glad we did cause it turns out anyone could get in as long as you didn't mind being surrounded by kids and being in a very loud museum.

We had so much fun!! It was one of those interactive museums to their was a lot of stuff to see, touch and play with.

The first section we went into was called "Build It"

 Mike next to an Eiffel Tower

 Me next to an Aztec Temple

 Mike decided to build a house. I think it turned out very nicely. (See that pile of blocks...that was my tower before it fell)

Next I tried this display out. You put paper into the bottom of the tube and wind shoots it out the top. I had fun putting it in and dancing around in it. I think this is the closest I'll get to dancing around in flying money :)

This exhibit was neat. It was all about sound and they had this table and blocks with different instruments on them. When you put the block on the table it made that sound. We had fun creating our own band with some very strange sounds.

Next we tested our physical strength. They had 3 pulley's: hard, harder and hardest. Mike tried the hardest one and was able to reach the top.....I was not able to do so but YAY for Mike!!!!!

This is a gyro box that you were supposed to carry while trying to walk along the red path. Mike did pretty well

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Next we tried to lay on a bed of nails. It sounds like it would be really uncomfortable and it is but it also sounds like it would hurt and it surprisingly did not. The only negative part for me was that my hair got pulled a little but it would have been fine if I had made sure it was on the pillow my head was on. You lay down and then press a button and the nails slowly rise out of the case. Its a very weird sensation. 

Next we went downstairs into the "rainforest". They had exotic birds and a rope bridge that you could walk across. 

 They also have a small aquarium in the museum. This little octopus was fun to watch :)

Later I decided to go back and try the pulley labeled hard and I made it to the top :)

We had a lot of fun at the museum and I took a lot more pictures than this but I don't want to upload all of them. This museum would have been more fun with children but until then we got to act like kids for about 2 hours which was fun.