Calder's 5th Birthday - Star Wars at OMSI!!!

For Calder's 5th birthday we went to the OMSI, which was featuring a REAL life Star Wars exhibit. It had all of the original costumes and props, plus Yoda's puppet, R2D2, C3P0, Luke's landspeeder etc. They also had interactive exhibits. One of them was an air propelled hover craft that the kids could ride. The boys could NOT get enough of this, they went back time and again.
Also there were legos to build their own speeders and make them go, using magnets.

The boys spent their time running between exhibits and pretending to interact with the characters. We were there for 2 hours.

Near the end, when we thought that we were done, all of a sudden the place was filled with real life Characters from the movie.


The boys went crazy going from one to the next shyly shaking hands and getting their picture taken with them.

All of the boys were going to be Star Wars characters for Halloween so this was a BIG treat for the birthday boy! Calder especially wanted to meet Jango Fett (who he was going to be for Halloween) Just about this time my camera started to malfunction so the pictures are less than they should be, but that is part of the story too so I can't leave it out!

We ended up staying a full other hour at the end for the boys to meet the characters. It had turned out to be sponsors night and so they had the characters their as special guests. What luck for us, and what a great present for the birthday boy!!