Little Wonders

My favorite song is Little Wonders, by Rob Thomas and tonight while thinking what I did during the day, it came to my mind. I had the best experience volunteering today. It was one of those warm fuzzy moments that make you realize how wonderful life is. This is one of those little wonders, a moment that will stay with me because it impacted me "Our lives are made in these small hours-these little wonders, these twists and turns of fate.Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain."

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Shopping

We went to the mall on Saturday,and while my mom was busy looking at table cloths or something in her favorite store Casa & Ideas, Marissa and I went into Saga Falabella to look for some hair clips. Shopping is shopping so we figured we would be okay.

It is the most confusing, annoying process.

 Let me explain.  There are little kiosks all over the store, with merchandise around it.

 So you choose your merchandise, and then you give it to the lady at the kiosk by it. She then prints you off a receipt and sends you to the Caja- the cash register. There you give them the receipt and pay. And then they give you another receipt. You then take your receipt back to the kiosk where they check it and give you your stuff along with another receipt.

 

So by the time you are through, you have talked to several people, been in several lines, and have a dozen receipts in your pockets.While we were there we saw this giant ostrich display with the jeans.   We took pictures (of course).

 

The Science Museum

Last Friday we took a trip to a science museum. It was interesting. 

It was in a large warehouse and had  different sections.

I liked this one. The object was to use your weight and work together to balance or tip the scale to get the basketball from the top to the bottom and through another hoop. 

 I cringed at the sight of this structure.

 I was positive that it was going to collapse at any moment.

The fearless ten year old tried it anyway. Props Marcus. 

And then he rode a bike, so you could see the way your bones move.

There was a warning sign on it:

Drive with Caution.

Oh the irony of it. Peruvians don't drive with caution... at all. 

Nothing was holding the blocks up but the blocks themselves.

There was an earthquake room, although I don't know why, because earthquakes are quite common. 

We had two early this morning. One at 2am and one at 4am. 

I don't know what this is, but they had fun with it.

Marcus on a bed of nails. Apparently it was pretty comfy. I didn't try though.

Want to learn about the dental system? They had that too.

And the birthing process... 

just in case you missed health class.

My personal favourite was the big pregnant lady.

 You know, just in case you wanted to see how the baby grows. 

Why is it so big? Yeah, we don't know either. 

Marissa and Mom, looking cute as always.

There was a random information desk, so we posed. 

I was employee of the month.

 Mom was sleeping on the job.

And that was our exciting trip to the museum!