# 31, #19 and #93

MAKE A POTTERY PROJECT ... GO TO A MUSEUM ... MAKE HOMEMADE ICE CREAM


I took the kids to The Painted Potter. My lil' guy wanted nothing to do with it (for awhile anyway). He finally decided that he wanted to paint a baseball piggy bank. It's brown. All over. Definitely not my creative child.

My girl was ALL over it. She picked out a cup that had crowns on either side of it. She wanted it to be colored like the Georgia Bulldogs and New Orleans Saints. This was not as relaxing as I had hoped it would be (the kids grew frustrated and impatient at times especially when the projects was not turning out the way they had hoped). I would say that I would go back again but painting pottery is freaking expensive.


After The Painted Potter, we headed to the Fernbank Museum. It reminded me a little bit of Jurassic Park. Especially when we first walked in to see a HUGE dinosaur set up in the atrium and walked down a curvy set of stairs. Fernbank is a beautiful building and it has martinis & imax on Friday nights. I definitely want to try that out. The special exhibit of dinosaurs was amazing. They had a miniature replica of a T-Rex that was set up so that it was walking. At another station, a touch screen monitor allowed museum visitors to manipulate different factors (like mass and center of gravity) on a T-Rex to see how fast the ferocious dinosaur would run at that rate. Remember in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex was able to keep up with the Jeep? According to this, it is not possible for T-Rexs to have run that quick.




The best part was the Sensing Nature exhibit. The kids got hands-on with different stations, most of which were optical illusions. Their favorite parts was making the huge bubbles. They were so excited. I tried to take advantage of the time to teach them why the different things worked but they were so overstimulated that their attention span was about 30 seconds at each station.




After Fernbank, we met Emily for some yummy pizza at Brickhouse. We tried to grab a pizza from Fellini's on our way back from the museum but the time it took to wait for it wasn't worth the traffic we were going to hit if we did wait. Then, it was off to Kroger to get our ingredients for our homemade ice cream. It didn't turn out perfect but my little girl said, "Dang, this IS good." So I guess the presentation doesn't really matter then.

Three things off the list in one day but still a little short of 50 done by the end of June. :/ Just gotta keep on keepin' on. :)

TASKS #31, #19 AND #93 ... COMPLETED 6/30