Explora with Larrisa

Our first outing was to Explora, which is a children’s science museum. I think she liked it, and I enjoyed it too, although I got a migraine afterwards. My migraines are sensitive to large echoey indoor spaces. I thought it would be quiet enough – being a museum. But it’s hard to predict. I usually do fine with indoor concerts, but I don’t do well with indoor malls, aquariums, pools and gymnasiums. So it’s more about the type of noise than the actual volume.

I’ve been mentioning my migraines lately, but actually I’m doing way better than in the past. Lately my migraines have been discrete events a week or more apart, and I can usually tell what triggered them. But for some years there, they were nearly continual and it was hard to tell where one started and the other one ended. It’s amazing to have many migraine-free days. It makes me wonder how I ever used to manage!

In this first exhibit, the goal is to build tracks on the wall for marbles. You have to get them lined up just right so the marbles stay on the tracks. Also if it’s too steep and the marbles go too fast they’ll leap off the track.

This next one is a magnet. She built a bridge across between the magnets with the marbles.

It’s a nice big open space (which is why it was echoey)

Here she is learning about plumbing at an outdoor water exhibit.

She’s controlling this suspended model airplane with hand and foot controls.

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I had to google the quote because I don’t read Spanish very well, but apparently it means, “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” I doubt Henry Ford said it in Spanish.

Enormous legos. Those would have been fun to have as a kid!

We were mostly indoors, but it looks like I took most of the pictures outdoors. I particularly like this one.