Tyler and Nate's Weekend Adventure

It was Siblings Weekend here at Duquesne and since my actual sibling is both too old for this and just generally sucks, I got kids that aren't actually even related to me to come! Ty and Nate came down for Friday night and all day Saturday. Good times...

First, they were really impressed with me living downtown and in a skyscraper. I guess if you're like 6 and don't ever really go downtown (Cleveland is set up a lot like Pittsburgh and Ty's hospital isn't really downtown, its a little away from there like Oakland... but with less bums.), large buildings and such are pretty impressive. And bridges, let's not forget about those, bridges are COOL! It must be nice to live somewhere that is both flat and doesn't require crossing several waterways to get anywhere more than across the street.

Then on Saturday morning we had brunch in Towers (Ty, the eating machine, was very impressed with all of the food. It was pretty much heaven.) and then went to play scientist in my lab. We played with dry ice in the sink for a while since that's amusing to anyone with a pulse, not just kids, and then we did an experiment. Nate's obsessed with acid now for some reason, so I lied and said my RNA loading buffer was acid (that was about the only thing I could find that looks cool... its bright blue... and wasn't really dangerous). So we pipetted some of that into water and vortexed it in little eppendorfs... very scientific and studious of us, haha. Then we looked at dead things in jars.

And then we were even more scientific and went to the Science Center! We did the photo booth, well, attempted it at least. The dark picture is Nate's cheek after he dove into the camera. The Omnimax movie freaked them out :-( so we had to run out of that after about 5 minutes but otherwise, they thought it was a really neat place. Especially since we got to make (and drink, of course) ginger ale in the kitchen theater... ooooh! aaaaah! And the gift shop, oh the gift shop... we bought shark teeth and diamonds (aka $5 chunk of amythest).

And finally, we ate... a lot. Jamie was really shocked when she came back from the library around 9:00 on Friday night and found us eating 10lbs of chicken nuggets. I'm certainly not kidding when I say Ty is a hungry, hungry kid.