Skimming The Surface - GPA 8

The Wiener Mobile is parked in our hotel parking lot every morning and evening.  We suppose that it cruises around the city and outlying areas during the day.  At night there is a manned security car to protect the wiener mobile.  I've never seen it in person before.  Now I am complete.

Because there is SO much to do here, there is no way we can do justice to any of it.  Our approach is to experience as much of it as we can even if we can only skim the surface.  We went to the St. Louis Science Center first off.   It is a great place, but truth be told, my girls aren't crazy into science, and they are pretty worn out from lots of walking the last few days, so they were a little slow moving.

Once again we didn't have Clark with us (I'm missing him), but we thought of him as we took this picture of the pi sign.

I really really really wanted to go into The Art Museum, but we were short on time before we needed to be over to the arena for the first robot run.  Abe stayed in the car with the littles while Bethany and Elinor and I saw as many beautiful paintings as we could in 20 minutes.  Lame, I know.  But it was better than nothing.  I loved what I got to see.

Pi Pod spent much of their day hanging out in their pit and completing their 3 robot runs-- the last one went great.  Clark tells me that it is NOT a good run when your robot falls over, which sadly did happen in the 2nd run.  They said their little Lego driver guy was drunk.  Good thing they take your highest score.  

The girls were ecstatic to get to go "trick or treating" around the pits collecting all sorts of trinkets.  They got their faces painted, they got to have their names written in Chinese and Korean, they got buttons, pencils, chapstick, wrist slap bracelets, pins, stickers, rubber bracelets, temporary tattoos.  

That was really fun, but then the girls spent hours back at the hotel trading with the sisters of other Pi POD members.  Elinor wasn't so much into the trading.  She and her friend Caleb were vegging out on superhero cartoons, but she enjoyed the collecting.

Pi POD Shuttle Craft.   

This evening the boys headed off to a Black Eyed Peas concert for FIRST participants.  Supposedly it was the "clean" version.  These boys aren't exactly into pop culture, and neither are their dads who accompanied them, but they decided to give it a go. 

They didn't stay very long.  

This is my happy place. 

Good night.