I am so grateful to live in Columbia, MO. Yesterday was so full of fun activities to do with my family! The university had several different activities going on all day. We could only go to two of them, missing the black and gold game. We started by going to the Physics department open house where we marveled at so many cool exhibits that we could touch and explore, including the archimedes principle and a variety of examples of how different types of waves travel through space. Next we enjoyed a cool and misty and sometimes rainy walk through campus to get to Adventures in Education hosted by the MU Graduate School as a part of Graduate Education Week 2008. A big Thank You goes out to all the students and faculty who put this together. We learned a LOT, had a bunch of FUN and got to eat free Icecream…what could be better? Our favorite exhibit was, oddly enough, the one about inserting an arterial stint. WOW, fascinating stuff! Isaac also really liked that dog skeleton showing all the blood veins. Linda and Joseph enjoyed learning about the green glowing pigs. Also pictured in this collage are the greenhouses at MU–I had to put them in here as Linda told us this was the site of her decision to go into education instead of horticulture. I’m glad for the difficulty she experienced in that greenhouse class…otherwise, who knows if we’d have ever met…
But, aside from all that really cool sciency stuff….the most fun we had was noticing all of the different types of manhole covers there are - on campus alone! We are very excited to start exploring the differences around the city, state, country…even the world! I see a children’s book in my future…
That manhole cover collage is really cool! That’d make a great poster!