A Grand Outing

Spring break, granddaughters, science museum. What a day.

This this is Spring Break for the schools in the Oklahoma City area I thought it would be fun to take some of my granddaughters to the Zoo. All last week the local TV weather guessers were predicting rain for this week, starting late Monday night. So the Zoo outing was planned for Monday. I originally planned to take the youngest of the girls, Cadence, who is five and her nine year old twin sisters. (The twins are actually step-grand kids but we have decided to leave the "step" part out. Since both of their natural grandpas have passed away they have decided they enjoy having one to do things with.) Aurora, my middle granddaughter who is six, was also invited to go with us. After thinking it over I decided taking four active little girls for an all day outing by myself was probably not a good idea so I informed my son, and these girls dad/step dad, that he was going with me.

As it turned out the weather guessers guessed wrong. The storm came in Sunday night and we woke to massive rain. Plans immediately changed from the Zoo to the Oklahoma City Science Museum instead. (This museum used to be called the Omniplex in years past.) This is a hands on interactive museum that is ideal for children. It also has a domed IMAX type theater so we took that in also. We started off by all going for a late breakfast at IHOP and then out to the museum. The girls were very well behaved and all seemed to really enjoy themselves. After several hours exploring all the exhibits none were really ready to leave. Around four in the afternoon we loaded up and headed to McDonald's for a late lunch/early dinner.

Aurora, Cadence, Catlyn & Madison at the Science Center

The IMAX movie was called "Tornado Alley" and was a documentary about the area from South Dakota down through Texas and was done by the group of Storm Chasers that work for the Federal Government. It gave the appearance of being in the center of the tornado. There were mixed emotions from the girls. The twins really got into it. Catlyn was mesmerized by it but Madison was a bit frightened and wound up squeezing my arm all the way through it. Aurora was somewhat frightened but then got bored and Cadence was bored all the way through.

After our stop at McDonald's we headed home. Dropped Aurora off at her mom's house and then took Alan and the other girls home. Wound up hanging out for a little while at their place. I enjoy being with these kids so much it is hard to let go. It was a good day by all and I promised them we would make the Zoo on another day.