October 16, 2012. Today my brother, mom and I went to visit a science museum near our house in Posillipo. We wanted to take a bus ride down the narrow road with no sidewalk, but when the bus came down to the bus stop where we were, it just kept on going and didn't stop. So we had to walk the skinny road down the hill to the museum called Citta Della Scienza (I think I spelled it right....). This year the theme of the museum was astronomy (the theme changes every year), so when you walk in, you feel like you are in a spaceship most of the time. They even had rooms that had red-dirt floors that looked like the grounds of mars. The museum had lots of hands-on experiments and exhibits including my favorites, three giant big tubes of liquid, each had a different viscosity (each were a different thickness basically). There were big handlebars on each, when you pushed the handlebar down and pulled it back up, it would create bubbles in the tubes that naturally floated up to the top, but each tube's bubbles travelled at a different speed. For example, the red tube (each tube was a different color) was the thickest, and the bubbles travelled very very slowly. In the blue tube (the thinnest viscosity) the bubbles traveled much faster, but not as fast as regular h2o. My 2nd favorite exhibit was the rocket ship. This was a little plastic rocket ship in a plastic tube above water. When you press the go-button, there were two bubbling, silver cylinders at the bottom of the tube underwater. What those cylinders would do was split the molecules into hydrogen and oxygen (like splitting h2o into h2 and O) and use it to blast the rocket ship up to the ceiling. Last but not least of my favorite exhibits was the huge tube of blue dyed water. When you pressed the 'go' button, the water at the top would start to spin, and soon it created a giant whirlpool. The rest of the museum was very interesting too, my mom got to do the thing where you hold on to a bar that generates static electricity and makes your hair stand up-that was really funny :). Another thing that I remembered best from the museum was these screens everywhere that showed these evil-looking cartoon jack-in-the-boxes that had really wide eyes and a really big mouth. These things were idle most of the time, but whenever you stepped infront of them, they would come alive and talk to you and ask you questions in a really high-pitched, robotic voice. It was soooo freaky!! I'm pretty sure there was a real person looking through a camera and talking to you, because it asked intelligent questions and replied to you like a normal person (despite the creepy voice). Despite the scariness of this thing, i found it entertaining. :D