The Art of Lego @ OMSI

Today was our third and final field trip of the last week. Whew! I have a brand new appreciation for field trip coordinators! I’ve done them before, but 3 in 8 days is a bit much… Thankfully, OMSI was wonderful to work with and made the whole experience so much more enjoyable!

We had a fantastic turn out of 64! Field trips are even more fun with friends! I even had a friend from high school meet us there for the day with her kids!

While I loved taking the boys to OMSI when they were little, it was kind of fun for Chris and I to experience it on our own. You get to see a whole lot more when you aren’t constantly doing a head count… ;o)  They also had quite a few new exhibits since the last time we were there.

  We found some suspicious fingerprints that turned out to be ours… LOL

William and his friends spent most of their time in… Can you guess where??? 

I loved this poem, from the book above, about a princess and a prince 

I loved the girl tied to the tracks detail

   

Some Lego artwork by a local Portland artist. I want one for the house but Will didn’t think he could do it… :o(

I heard reports that he had built a tree, but he was working on his dome by the time we arrived. Unfortunately, he didn’t get to finish it before lunch… :o( 

Nathan did get to finish his! Very nice!

We were all pretty hungry by lunch time. And we all enjoyed the entertainment provided by the vending machines… Will made a bit of money by figuring out the “give change” button on one machine. Poor Asher got his hand stuck in one of the vending machine doors. :o(   And 3 people bought Pirate Booty, but the machine just didn’t want to give it up…

Thankfully, Preston gave it a bit of a shake and they all fell! Whew!

The sun started to peek out a bit, too!

The boys had a bit more fun after lunch…

That was a fun but exhausting day!