DISCOVER Discovery Place!!

Hello world!! I have been busy living life here in Charlotte, NC! I am loving all the adventures I am experiencing and all the new people I have been meeting!! This past weekend I had family come into Charlotte and visit me! My second cousin (my father's cousin) and her husband came in from an hour outside of Charlotte to take me out to lunch and to a local science museum! I hadn't seen them since I visited Washington D.C. about eight years ago, so it was wonderful to catch up with them!

We went out to eat at a restaurant and then headed into uptown Charlotte to explore the Discovery Park! I had heard about this science museum before but hadn't visited it yet so I was super excited! While it is technically geared towards children and family fun, I am a nerdy kid at heart so I loved it!!! On the first floor there were tons of building activities where one could build anything they wasted out of wooden blocks! I made a small castle that I named Casa de Mackenzy and it was fabulous! There were tons of cool hands-on and interactive activities teaching kids about force, physics, and movement! It was amazing and so much fun!!! As you walk along the first floor you are just overwhelmed by all the fun going on in one room!

My family, Nancy and Bob checking out cool physics exhibits!

The next area of the museum was dedicated to frogs. Yes...frogs. While I am not the biggest frog person, some of them were kinda cute (others disgustingly large and slimy). Check out some of the cuter ones!

A cuter frog! Except you know..poisonous (Poison Dart Frog)! 

This one is called a Tomato Frog! Maybe because it looks like a tomato!

The next exhibit was all about Alien Worlds and Androids...and it was totally interesting! It had some really cool information on space and robots and cool nerdy stuff that I find awesome. Especially when they have a FULL SIZE REPLICA of IRON MAN!!!!!!

I LOVE HIM.

After the aliens and android fun, there was a whole room full of reptiles and hand-on interactive fun!!

I'm holding a starfish!!!!!

Bob with cool dragon like iguana thing...it was so cute!!

The museum also had a really cool little rainforest! If anybody has been to the zoo in Omaha, they will know that the Lied Jungle (America's largest indoor rainforest) is really amazing!! Well Discovery Place had a mini one that was still really neat! They also had a small aquarium that housed some really interesting and beautiful fish!

I found Nemo and Marlin!!!

After exploring the museum, Nancy and Bob took me out for ice cream! I had such a great time with them and really enjoyed getting to hang out with family!!!