Grossology

One of the main activities this past Saturday was a visit to the Cité des Scienes (a more modern science museum than the "Palais des Découvertes" which I wrote about previously), located in the northeast corner of Paris. The main exhibit we saw was called "reprout! le science impolit de le corps humain" ("prout" is the word associated with farting in French; the rest is translated as "the impolite science of the human body.") Therefore the exhibits were devoted to such child-fascinating topics as burps(les rots) , farting (les pets) , pooping (caca), peeing (pipi), boogars (les crottes du nez), and snot (la morve). Needless to say, Maeva and Auxanne loved it. Some pics:

"le Geode", the large dome which served as the museum's cool IMax theater.

Here we are inside a model of a gigantic human nose, complete with nasal mucosa and everything. Auxanne is standing on the epiglottis, which stimulates breathing by pumping air onto the person standing in the center.
Maeva plays a pinball game called "Gas Attack!" Who thinks up this stuff? I want that job...
Sophie prepares to visit the exhibit via the giant mouth that serves as its entrance. She was very well-behaved and quiet the entire day, we were very proud of her.

Auxanne climbs a wall that simulates a patch of skin studded with various skin blemishes (pimples, moles, etc.)