Day 8

Discovery World Milwaukee was on the agenda for Day 8. These pictures are horribly out of order, but you'll get the idea. 

To start off we have the displays of different kinds of levers, springs, wheels etc.

 This was a machine they had to all pump with their feet to get this wheel to turn.

 An electricity generator. Word of caution..do not touch the person standing off of the platform like Willie and I did here. We got a surprisingly strong shock sent in through our fingers and through our bodies. Ouch!

 Jellyfish are cool! Tina and I were both taking a picture at the same time here, so her kids looked into her camera, and my kids looked into mine. Guess who took this picture!

Lets try this one family at a time...

 The underwater tube was cool to walk through too!

 Seahorse.

The touch and feel sea creature station.

 Apparently, the touch and feel station does not include pick up and hold. This was taken right before I got in trouble for picking up the starfish. So cool though, so it was worth the trouble.

More levers and pulley's. Brylee and Johnathan trying to pull themselves up on this chair.

Alissa did it!

 Have you ever laid on a bed of nails? Yeah, me either. But Madi and Ryan did!   

Discovery World is right next door to the Summerfest music grounds, so they have a bunch of signed guitars from famous bands that have played there. Ryan found one of his favorites- the B52's.

 And I had to get a picture in front of Carrie Underwood's.

Playing gerbil to try and get the lights on. First up, Katelin and Alissa...

 Madi thinks she can do it alone...

 Nope. Maybe Zack can with help from Ryan...

 Still no. 

Okay, time for the big boys to try. After a lot of synchronized running, and thinking the wheel was going to come right off, the lights finally turned on. 

Then there was this driving simulator. Please remind me never to get behind the wheel of any of these kiddos! Yikes! 

  

Back to the sea creature area...did I mention these were out of order? Madi looking out a periscope to Lake Michigan.

And also in the pully chair area...a life size boat to explore. Zack is the captain. 

In the end, it was a gorgeous day, so we wanted to get a group picture of the kids in front of Lake Michigan. I guess it was a little too gorgeous...and too sunny. Eyes up here guys! 

 Oh well, thats as good as it gets with 9 kids.

And some family shots. Hoping for better luck with the sun here. 

Oh well, guess this shady spot will just have to do. Unfortunately, couldnt get the other two kids to join, so you just get these 3 pretty faces!  

Another eventful day down! 3 more to go!

Hopefully you can get days 9 and 10 to show up on the blog, because I cant. Just in case, it doesnt come up, you can get to it from clicking on the link on the side of the blog!