Visit to the Science Museum

The first week after my arrival, when Mark’s vaca­tion began, we spent time with him accord­ing to our vaca­tion sched­ule. We went to the library, to the play­ground, played board games, took our grand­son to train­ing, my grand­moth­er cooked, etc. But as soon as the hol­i­days end­ed, and exact­ly a week had passed since his ill­ness, I fell ill. The tem­per­a­ture reached 102.2 degrees Fahren­heit, which cor­re­sponds to 39 Cel­sius. For three days she lay like a log and was excom­mu­ni­cat­ed from cook­ing, dish­wash­er and oth­er house­hold chores.

But now every­thing is fine, I’m already run­ning like a goat. I even plucked the grass in front of the house on the front­yard for two days. If you think that weeds do not grow through the peb­bles here, then you are very mis­tak­en. In Rus­sia, spring lasts three months, but here it is from Octo­ber to April, and then five months of sum­mer. Now every­thing is in bloom, soon the cac­ti will bloom, the moun­tains have turned slight­ly green from the grass, and in the sum­mer they will acquire an earthy color.

Before my arrival, the chil­dren weed­ed the entire court­yard, and there was not enough time to weed the area in front of the house. Here, many peo­ple water the peb­bles around the house with some kind of gloomy chem­istry, and the grass burns or you can wait for the sum­mer and it will burn under the sun. But the daugh­ter says that this chem­istry is harm­ful to the envi­ron­ment, and it will not poi­son nature and us all (I sus­pect that she joined the Green Party :)))

As part of the cul­tur­al pro­gram, we had the fol­low­ing event.

Science Museum

On Sat­ur­day, before the end of the hol­i­days, we decid­ed to vis­it the Sci­ence Muse­um. It is locat­ed in cen­tral Phoenix, where many muse­ums, the­aters, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona and oth­er cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions are locat­ed. The sci­ence muse­um has a lot of enter­tain­ment for chil­dren and usu­al­ly many fam­i­lies go there with a bunch of chil­dren. We have already been in it on one of my pre­vi­ous visits.

In this muse­um, you can, for exam­ple, mea­sure your strength, lie on nails, spin a bicy­cle and find out how much you need to ped­al to burn just 152 calo­ries. You can enter a giant (plas­tic) stom­ach and see how it works inside; col­lect all the inter­nal organs on the man­nequin; lis­ten to how your heart beats; see what the house is built of and much more. This muse­um also has a plan­e­tar­i­um and a cin­e­ma hall, which shows pop­u­lar sci­ence films in 3D. Last time we watched a film about the microworld. Very inter­est­ing. And this time they showed about white sharks. Huge and ter­ri­bly scary fish, and peo­ple swam next to sharks with­out spe­cial equip­ment, only a small har­poon gun. It turns out that if you keep eye con­tact, the shark does not attack (but try to keep it).

The plan­e­tar­i­um, how­ev­er, did not make much of an impres­sion on me. They showed a film about the devel­op­ment of astro­nau­tics, but we have more infor­ma­tive and inter­est­ing films about this. We must pay trib­ute, a lot has been said about Rus­si­a’s con­tri­bu­tion to the devel­op­ment of space.

Valenti­na bought two prof­itable annu­al sub­scrip­tions for $80 on some web­site. For each sub­scrip­tion, you can car­ry two more peo­ple and walk at least every day. Here they gen­er­al­ly like to sell such pass­es. Tak­ing into account the fact that the sub­scrip­tion was pref­er­en­tial, we have already jus­ti­fied all its cost, but we will def­i­nite­ly go there again when the sub­ject of films changes.