July 12, 2007

July 12, 2007

After the 4th holiday festivities, we drove with my parents to their home in Godfrey, IL. I saw an article about the St. Louis Science Museum in one of my father’s AAA travel magazines so Aimee and I went to investigate today. The museum is not big but has tons of hands-on exhibits designed for the younger generation. Fortunately Aimee is married to a big kid. We spend most of our time in the optical illusion area trying out each of the effects. When we are finished we are bug-eyed and seeing double. Our vision of the world depends on a strange union of our eyes and brains and it is amazing how easy it is to fool our perceptions.

On the drive back, we stopped in downtown Alton to see the new monument for the final Lincoln-Douglas debate that took place here in 1858.