Super Heroes at the State Museum

In February, a teacher at the school who has worked with Jalen on his reading and knows how much he loves reading gave us tickets to the superhero exibit at the state museum. I thought we'd stay an hour or so and we stayed more than three. 

Wonder Woman costume

 Superhero cutouts 

Jalen was super excited to see the exhibit.

Superman

Trying to crack the code to the safe.

Batman's car

The Tardis  

Batman 

Walking between two sky scrapers.

The Hulk

Shooting things with lazers powered by hand motions.

Jumping

Iron Man

Hang Time 

Mini heroes

Wind tunnel

Hero in hiding

Batmobiles over the years

This was interesting. We've discovered that Jalen has a condition called  Raynaud's. His hands get very cold. This think was something that when you touched it, the heat from your hand would leave a thermal hand print. Not only did Jalen not leave a hand print at all, if he put his hand on top of someone else's handprint, it would make it disappear.

Speed test--Jalen was very speedy.  

David was speedy too.

Reaction test. I was awesome at this, but David ended up beating me.

In the booth

We had never really explored the museum. We decided to check some of the other areas within the museum and it was amazing. We will probably get a family membership because we had a great time and definitely want to go back.

Replica of the Huntley submarine that was sunk during the Civil War.

They had some sword fighting demonstrations going on and we thought this guys outfit was cool.

It was a really fun day and we look forward to going back.

Edisto Beach & Lunar Eclipse

I am so far behind on this blog that I'm not even sure what to include and what to leave out.

In January, we decided to go camping for Martin Luther King weekend. We chose Edisto Beach where we had never been before. On the way, we decided to stop at the Angel Oak Tree. We had heard a lot about it, but never seen it. It did not dissapoint. It is estimated to be 400-500 years old.

The campground was beautiful and right next to the beach.

The kids went for a swim even though it was freezing cold!

We had s'mores by the fire.

Edisto was a charming town. It was very residential and not touristy. It had suffered a lot from a recent hurricane. There were many properties for sale.

We were supposed to stay two days, but it was freezing cold and poured rain. We stayed dry, but our bedding was wet so we decided to head home a day early. 

It was Tashi's first camping trip and his first time at the beach. He loved both, but wasn't a fan of the water.

We found amazing shells. Lots of whelk shells and some horseshoe crab shells.

When we got home, we were able to catch the lunar eclipse. It is pretty cool that we were able to see both a solar and a lunar eclipse in a short amount of time. The kids slept through it, but David and I watched it from the trampoline.

It was hard to focus the camera, so the pictures mostly came out blurry. They were still pretty cool.

Overall, it was an amazing weekend and we had a wonderful time.