Inventors' Museum and Hall of Fame

We went to the National Inventors' Museum and Hall of Fame last Saturday in Akron. The top three floors were exhibits and models from the U.S. patent office, along with pictures and biographies of well-known U.S. inventors. The bottom floor was all hands-on experiments stations where you could build things out of available materials. The kids here are making and cars to race on a racetrack.















There was also an activity where you stacked plastic cups in a pyramid to see how tall you could make them. Dan made sure that the activity had a swift and abrupt finish!

In taste testing news-- our initial trial of G2 Gatorade was less than successful. We stored it in a location where it became partially frozen, and learned the hard way that it does not form into ice crystals when freezing. It actually turned into a gel, which was quite disgusting. We did a test later in the week with non-frozen G2 (orange and grape), which we actually liked quite a lot better.

Heading to church to see Pres. Hinckley's funeral today. None of our kids were alive when he became prophet, so this will be the first transition of a leader of the church in their lifetimes.