Today, Mom and I went with Andrea, Barbara, Andy and Elliot to The Pacific Science Center to see a movie about the First Emperor of China and the Terracotta Warriors.
They were really cool. Each one has a different face. They also have different jobs depending on how they are dressed.
They even had horses!
This exhibit did have some interactive parts. Here we could build different kinds of warriors. Andy and I tried our hand at creating something.....
but Elliot (Andy's older brother) won with this creation below.
I really liked this suit of armor-it's made out of stone and 2,200 years old!
In this room, we got to see what the terracotta warriors looked like way back in 200 BC. All painted. They were really neat!
There were several other inter active displays. My favorite one was on the First Emperor, Qin's (pronounced Chin) battle strategies. I found military strategies to be fascinating, and then this little girl came along and pulled the plug. The program needed to be reset by an employee. Uhg, silly girl. The activity below, Andy and I were archaeologists re constructing a warrior's head.
Archaeologists have realized that this dig is HUGE, and since it's discovery in 1974, they realize that Emperor Qin's tomb is buried nearby in a 10 story under ground palace. Archaeologists have not tried digging up the tomb, until they can find a way not to damage the artifacts. His tomb is supposed to have unknown treasures with his sarcophagus surrounded by a river or mercury! The museum tried to depict it below.
Then we moved into the main part of the museum. Andy, Elliot and I got into this hurricane machine.
Then we moved on to the tinkering station where we worked on electronics. I'm hooking stuff up to a battery.
This was all in the shadow of the Space Needle. A man named Colin helped us.
We had a really good day.
