Mother's Day at the Connecticut Science Center

For Mother's Day, Mark and Lily took me to the Connecticut Science Center, where they were offering free admission to moms who came with their kids.  Lily got in for free, so the cost of Mark's admission was barely higher than the cost to park (don't get me started on THAT).

Lily's a little young for some of the exhibits but she had a blast checking everything out.   We wore her in the Boba because the Science Center's website suggested not bringing strollers in, but we totally could have strollered her!   The first thing we came to was a really fun water exhibit - smocks provided:

   

Then we moved to a building activity and a golf ball spiral:

Next we started heading upstairs and saw the really cool dinosaur exhibit.   There are fossils and animatronic dinosaur sculptures.   Lily was OK with the dinosaurs until the very end, when a T-Rex scared all three of us!  

After beating a hasty retreat from the dinosaurs, we were able to let Lily dig like a paleontologist and then checked out some really fun music and lights activities:

We continued through the science center to exhibits about sports, the human body, and climate change.  There was also a very interesting exhibit on the flora and fauna of Connecticut.   She got to pet a snake and was very gentle with it.  

We rounded out our visit with some playtime at the area sponsored by the fine folks at Lego.

Did I mention that their elevators are "mine" and they're in glass hoistways so that you can see the inner workings? 

Overall, we enjoyed our time at the Connecticut Science Center very much.   It was a great place to spend Mother's Day with my family.   We rounded out the morning with lunch at The Counter in West Hartford and then it was home for Lily's nap.