Bubbles (Not the Financial Kind)

Santa Ana’s Discovery Science Center is always intriguing, perhaps never moreso than during the cheery Bubblefest XIII, held 4-19 April. International bubble artist Fan Yang reveals and revels in everything having to do with this colorful and feel-good art form/science.

Fan Yang — holder of 16 Guinness Book World Records — enthralls audiences four times daily with such wonders as smoking, bouncing, and spinning bubbles in addition to forming a bubble carousel. Bubbles within bubbles within bubbles–makes you feel good already, doesn’t it?

Related activities within the Discovery Science Center include bubble learning stations, bubble blowing, and bubble experimentation that allows visits to figure out how to make their bubbles big and long lasting. You can even learn how to touch the inside of a bubble (gently, I would assume).

As a special treat, and for an additional fee, guests can arrange to have their photo taken inside a giant soap bubble.

Discovery Science Center
2500 N. Main St., Santa Ana
Phone: (715) 542-CUBE
Open daily 10 AM-5 PM
Admission: children (ages 3-17) $9.95; adults $12.95
Parking: $3.00