Science World: Like Sea World but with less water and more science

We had a quiet New Year's Eve 'round these parts. Not expecting to stay awake until midnight, we toasted our year past and the year to come with a great bottle of champagne early on - I think we were finished it well before 9. We fell asleep watching movies and when we woke later to feed Cole (one of his usual frequent nightly wakings) decided to stay awake for an extra 30 precious minutes in order to watch the countdown. We skipped the hooting and noisemaking from the balcony since only crazy fools would do that with a baby in the next room! While we are both of those things at times, I try not to be both at once.

Earlier in the day we hit up Science World. I hadn't been yet, and Jamie bought us memberships recently. It was fun - lots of cool experiments and activities for bigger kids, but Cole has a couple favourites too - he likes pulling at the guitar strings that show you sound waves, playing "I'm looking at you over... here!" in the angled mirrors and also the thing where you make an electrical circuit with your hands and it makes a weird sci-fi noise. As you can tell, I am not a big reader of plaques, and I did not do particularly well in science way back when, but I will get better with time, I'm sure, and Jamie can answer all the questions anyway! ;-)

Cole also really liked the kids play area - climbing through a little tunnel especially and we patiently waited our turn (apparently a novel concept!) to sit in the spaceship too.

All in all a great last day of what was a year of amazing new experiences for all of us. To 2009!