Eclectic Parent

I do wish everyone would spread events throughout the year. It’s bad enough that it’s so hot here during the summer, but nothing goes on either. Then every event and activity gets crammed into the cool months when we should be outside.

Today’s choices were Boo at the Zoo (Halloween event at the Phoenix Zoo), the Great Pumpkin Festival at the Desert Botanical Gardens, free admission to the Arizona Science Center and ASU’s Earth and Space Exploration Day.  We ruled out the zoo and DBG because it’s still 85 degrees outside and decided the science center would probably be very crowded. The usually science loving boys wanted to stay home; B voted for ASU.

They were very glad we talked them into it. Everything from seismology to rockets, Mars rovers discussion by someone who helps decide where it goes, panning for gold and geology, meteorites to outerspace. Far more hands-on booths that we could even visit, free planetarium show, and lots of college students and professors hyped up on science and excited kids. We were there for four hours and didn’t see everything they’d set up.

We really need to head over to the university more often. There is so much going on there. Now next weekend we have Halloween and multiple dia de los muertos fesivals…