Focht Family Blog

Since we finished Mall of America in one day we decided to check out the Science Museum with the kids the next day. Here is a part where they get to pretend they are on TV. Timmy is behind Samantha and Josh being silly.

There was a large section about world health and the body systems. Here is Samantha examining a patient.

Joshua decided he would rather discuss the world’s health problems over the phone.

Samantha was old enough that she was able to do some experiments on her own body. She was able to swab her cheek and examine the cells under a microscope.

Later the children talked grandma into sitting down and playing with puzzles with them.

The relaxation didn’t last long. Soon, Timmy found a section with dinosaurs that had a head that you could move the jaw on. Here is Timmy trying to get the jaw to open and close.

Next the children found a section that had to do with weather. They got a little carried away with the wind machine.

They ended their visit with some more puzzles with daddy and grandma.

After leaving Branson, we drove with Nathan’s parents to Minnesota so we could go to the Mall of America. We were concerned that two days would not be enough to properly do Mall of America but we managed to walk the whole mall in one day. Here are the kids when we started the day..

Here is a picture of the amusement park that is in the middle of the mall. We did not go on any of the rides.

At one point, Nathan’s mom took Samantha and Timmy into a game store to buy a game and my mom and Josh were watching the elevators going up and down while sharing a shake.

Samantha and Timmy discovered a wall of water by one of the elevators.

Needless to say, by the end of the day most of us felt like Josh did….

However, Nathan and I both made discoveries that we ended up having to go back to Mall of America to get more of before leaving Minnesota. Nathan’s discovery was chocolate covered raspberries from Godiva and I discovered some amazing apples from Rocky Mountain Candy Company. They all started out as caramel covered and then were dipped into different combinations.