Skirball Center

Sending the animals onto the ark 2 by 2. Animals were made out of styrofoam and the kids placed them onto a foam conveyor belt with snug holes for the animals that they powered by turning a wheel. The animals went into the ark and came down a shoot and down into a basket for the process to begin again.
Sage is using a hand pump to create a flood inside an enclosed glass case with a small ark inside.

Brooke is helping to build the ark with small planks of wood.
Sage and Grandma taking a rest in the climbing room.
Perry is using a pulley to send up food items to Sage on the 2nd floor. Gavin, Aunt Jenny, and Lee (on the large turtle) are watching. The turtle was made out of leather (possibly inspired by basketball material) and a head that bobbled.
Brooke is pulling on a rope that moves the elephants trunk and makes a loud elephant sound.

We went to a Jewish Cultural Center with Grandma Suzette, Aunt Jenny, and Gavin. Lee was able to make it with us as well. http://www.skirball.org/ I would compare it to a large museum with many exhibits going on at once. We went to the Noah's Ark exhibit that had 3 rooms for the kids to explore inside the ark. It was very original in the way each animal was created, they used recycled and reused parts. Pink fly swatters for the feet of a flamingo as one example. I finally got the video to work with sound. See Philip, I am MODERN! Everything was going so well until the drive home on the 405 freeway with Brooke in the car. Every seat was filled in the car and Brooke decided to be naughty...pulling hair, hitting, kicking, yelling, etc. After trying manipulation and bribes, we even tried restraining her...we were all glad to get home.

Brooke, Libby and Gavin are building inside the "Rainbow room" as they called it. There were 3 separate rooms to go inside that represented the 3 parts of the story: the storm, inside the ark, and the rainbow.