A Visit with Leo

For our Thursday field trip today, we went to see an exhibit on Leonardo DaVinci.  It was the perfect timing, as Mason is finishing up his school year by writing a research paper on DaVinci.

You'll have to pardon the quality of these photos - all I had with me was my iPhone.  Unlike what you'd expect, this exhibit didn't focus so much on DaVinci's paintings... instead, they had large scale models that were based on his experimental drawings, along with a placard that showed and explained how it was supposed to work.

A lot of the exhibits were hands off, but we could mess around with some others - our favorite was our attempt at building this bridge!

Success!

Overall, we really liked the museum... I had no idea that Leonardo DaVinci was instrumental in the development of many modern things we use today - such as the helicopter, the armored tank (his looked more like a turtle), parachutes, ball bearings... the list goes on and on!

Cool stuff!