House of Sonshines

House of Sonshines

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Barlow Planetarium

Shawn is V.E.R.Y into the solar system.  He is convinced that he wants to be an "astromony guy".  I am just excited that he is into something other than backugan, yugioh, pokemon etc...

There is a planetarium not too far from here.  So Sat evening we took a little trip to their family night.  Of course 5 minutes into the show Mason puked all over me...ugh!  Daddy followed me into the bathroom and literally gave me the shirt off his back lol!  Good thing he was wearing two!

Shawn loved it! We got to look into the powerful telescopes but didn't get to see anything real because it was too foggy. So we intend on going back in April or May. The scientist said that from April all thru the summer you can see Saturn perfectly! Yippee! Imagine how excited Shawn will be then!?!?!?!




Finding our seats under the planetarium sky.  It was a large dome over us that filled with stars when the lights turned down.  They told us some stories about the constellations and pointed out the plants.

Telescope

Saturn and its rings

Trivia:  Did you know that Pluto is not a planet anymore?  Back in our "day" it was...there was 9 planets.  Now there are only 8 planets and Pluto is considered a "dwarf planet".  Who knew?

1 comment:

ruth said...

yeah, I guess we need the kids to keep us updates on the planets!!!