February 19, 2011
Beautiful sunny day. Had to get (everyone) out of the house. We went down to OMSI. That place is so cool. I'd only been in the toddler room where you can definitely spend hours with your toddler and not be bored. But this time we went to the other area. All sorts of things to explore: orbits, space module model, water rockets, a room in which you build-your-own ball tube, building area (windmills, bridges, pulleys, gears), a chem lab, a physics lab. Whoa. The physics lab was super cool (Fraser liked that one too) - magnetic liquid, plasma tube, and my favourite: put your hand on a big metal ball while holding little metal pie tins; someone turns a crank and the electricity going through you makes the pie tins just lift off your hands and float away and down to the ground. Made me laugh out loud it was so cool.
After awhile at the museum (and not seeing anywhere close to all of it), we went down the street to a new (to us) brewery: Hair of the Dog. Tasty. I just think of my brother, Nick, and how he would love this place, because it is brewery heaven. We also stumbled upon an event: Zwickelmania, an Oregon brewery tour. Too bad we didn't know in advance. It would've been fun to get a sitter and head out for this one. Breweries everywhere and a shuttle between many of them! Apparently this is all over Oregon. So cool. I'm going to try and remember it for next year.
Back home. Jacob's almost asleep in the car. Get him home, give him some food (his insistence) and get him to bed. I go off to pilates, come home and hear him talking. I look at Fraser. No nap? Nope. Interesting.
A tiring day for both of us in different ways. Oh, being a spouse and parent and person.... it's a lot to juggle sometimes. And to balance.
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