October 2

The Franklin Institute is where we went today.  Early in the morning, we had breakfast in the lobby of our hotel.  We had to eat our breakfast fast so we could take my dad to work.  Once we dropped my dad off, we went to the Franklin Institute.

First we went and saw a big statue of Benjamin Franklin.  The first real exhibit we went to was the Earth exhibit.  In the Earth exhibit, we made our own weather forecasts and measured our carbon footprint.  Next we went to the electricity exhibit.  You made a call with your cell phone next to a large wall of lights.  When you made a call the lights lit up.  The second part of the exhibit showed Ben Franklin's lightening rod and how it attracted electricity.

The third part of the exhibit there was an educational video game (not x-box or something like that) where you supplied electricity to 8,000,000 people with mines, solar plants, wind plants and dams.  There were so many more exhibits, I can't name them all.

We also went to the planetarium and learned about the night sky.

There was a sky bike, which is basically a bicycle on a tightrope except it has a lot more safety equipment.  I rode on it.  You were supposed to ride back and forth twice, but I only did it once because it felt like I was gong to tip over and fall.  The sky bike was on the 3rd floor and it went out across the atrium.  You had to get off where you started.

It was a good day to be in a museum because it rained all day.  I got a bounce back ball as a souvenir.