Ryan invited us to be his guests at a family and friends donor event at Adler Planetarium on Saturday hosted by the Chicago Community Trust. This was a fantastic event! I was impressed by the kids meals at the lunch: Will's bag was PB&J, chips and a cookie. My adult box was tuna, pasta salad, fruit and a cookie. After lunch and a cool presentation by Adler's director of "Citizen Science, " we headed to the Planet Explorers section to watch will run around.
Ryan and I each took our turn at a cut-out, but we couldn't get Will to stop and do one.
Finally Ryan just had to grab Will for a quick photo as they were "driving" the rover. It did move, but I don't know that Will was really directing it so much as just throwing levers around. Will's biggest contribution was to collect all the "moon rocks" in his arms that he could.
This kid loves to build! He spotted the PVC pipe from across the room and ran right to it. He's an accomplished pipe-fitter thanks to his time at the Children's Musem.
The event was from 12-3, so Will was exhausted by the time we left. He was asleep before we made it out of the parking lot. Jason and Will dropped Ryan off near the El and me off at my office before heading back home to the burbs.
