Museo Scienza

I recently visited Museo Scienza in Milan Italy. It was a very interesting experience, and I learned a bunch of things on a bunch of different subjects. There was a space section, a food section, and a vehicle section, and a few others.

The space section had interactive games where you could dress an astronaut, do puzzles, etc. There were real spacesuits, and a recording of president Nixon talking to Neil Armstrong when Armstrong was on the moon, with video. I had a lot of fun there, and using an interactive game, built space shuttles that were futuristic, and worked.

The food section had information on nutrition, and what is best to eat. It had another interactive machine where you could take a picture of yourself, and put your thoughts on food in the future. When I was walking through this section, I saw real labs to the sides. This section had stuff about fruit, grains, dairy, protein, all sorts of things.

The vehicle section was different, as there were some old cars you could look at. They were quite nice, but what really sparked my interest was that when you walked outside there was a submarine. It was an Italian submarine that had survived WWII. I kept walking and went inside a building with planes, helicopters, and the hull of a ship. There was a place where you could get inside a helicopter cockpit, and see where your helicopter was going. That was cool. When I went inside the hull of the cruise ship, I was a little shaky because it felt like you were on the boat. There was a full ship with masts deeper down in the floor, but it wasn't open to the public.

This museum was pretty fun, and very educational. I would recommend.
-S.Galo


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Driving West to East in the USA in Four days

     As we traveled on I-80 through 11 states, the weather in each state was different. The first day, we drove from Northern California to Salt Lake City, Utah.  We went through Reno-there are a lot of casinos there. Next, we drove through Salt Lake City-very hot and in the high 80's.
       



There's not a lot to see in SLC, Utah.

    
     The next day, we drove through Wyoming, where we were snowed into the Rocky Mountains.  We were going about 40-45 miles an hour on snow, and the people passing us were going 60 miles an hour on the frozen left lane. We pulled over at a truck stop near the border of Nebraska and just stayed there. There were about 20-30 truckers there as well.  It got down to 8 degrees that night. My mom woke me up around midnight to tell me this, and we tried to get the heater working, and we eventually did, after I turned the radio on a a couple of times, since I was half-awake. In the morning, the roads were cleared.

Building a snowman in Wyoming.

My sisters and I were glad to reach Nebraska because it was warmer than Wyoming - but watch out for snakes!

     On the third day, we woke up and drove for five hours.  We reached Omaha, Nebraska, which is on the border of Iowa and Nebraska.  We stopped there for the night, before heading off to Des Moines.  Des Moines is famous for the girl who stopped the midnight express when the bridge in her town went out. She crawled across the broken bridge and ran all the way to the Des Moines station and told them to stop the express.  She then told them where the train crew was that went down with the bridge.  The train crew was rescued, and she received an award. When she got home, she fell in a deep sleep. She was exhausted.

Nebraska looks like this for 8 hours.



Missouri weather was nice - in the 70's - but the people aren't friendly there.

 

We stopped at the site of the original Pony Express Station for a break while we were in St. Joseph, Missouri.

     The fourth day, we arrived in Springfield, Illinois.  We could have kept going to our final destination - New Market, Virginia.  But we spend a day visiting the home of Abraham Lincoln at the National Park Service.  It was well done and a great visit to the former town of President Lincoln.  The homes and streets from that time are all there - just like they were when he was alive!

 

My sister is almost as almost as tall as I am - and I am tall!

My little sister is cute.

Inside the homes in President Lincoln's old town are artifacts from the period.

Here we are in front of President Lincoln's Springfield home - before he left to be President.

We really loved the room we stayed in that night.  My mother was able to get this room for only $60!