Two Beers and a Pretzel

My cousin Julia wanted to show me the Children’s Science Museum in Porto Alegre, so we went today.  It’s a holiday weekend here in Brazil, so it wasn’t very crowded.

Among the typical exhibits on electricity, sound, light, leverage and music, they had an entire section on geology that included some of the crystal geodes that Southern Brazil is famous for…

It’s hard to tell in the picture, but this geode was about the size of a large laundry basket.  That display bumped up against the kid-favorite, dinosaurs!!

One thing that would not happen in the USA, they had a whole section on human reproduction, showing the reproductive systems, development stages in the womb, and then a birthing video that showed everything.  I seriously doubt you’d see that last part in a kids museum in the States.

Anyway, after that, I found out the REAL reason I was asked to come along…  Julia wanted to see me on the Human Gyroscope…