Visit to the Museum- Playing with a Dragon and Dinosaurs

We had a fun time today visiting a local kid's museum with Nicole and Kara and also our friend Tiffany. It was an interesting visit because, for the first time, Ethan and Kara were really interested and engaged in exhibits outside of the Playscape area (the area that is designed for kids under 5 years of age). Playscape was packed to the hilt when we arrived, so we decided to explore other exhibits, and we never made it back to Playscape because the kids enjoyed everything else that we were seeing. We even got to assist with a really neat Lego project. The museum is going to open a huge Lego exhibit in early 2009, and as part of preparations for this exhibit, representatives from Lego were building a 10-foot tall dragon out of Legos. They had tables set up at the museum and instructions on how to use small legos to build large blocks that were then incorporated into the 10-ft tall dragon. So, Ethan and I and Kara and Nicole each put together a block that was used in building the dragon for the exhibit- Cool! The kids also enjoyed the dinosaur exhibit, and we even ran into one of the Comedy Sportz participants from when Dan and I went on our date night last weekend! I talked with him for a bit, and his "day job" is being the dinosaur guy at the museum, and his "night job" is working at Comedy Sportz. Two fun jobs! We tried to ride the carousel, but unfortunately it is closed for the month of September for renovations. It was a really fun day, and the kids didn't even seem to notice that they were missing their naps! We arrived shortly after 10am, and didn't leave until about 4pm. So we opened and nearly closed the place down (their hours are 10-5)!

Nicole, Kara, Tiffany, and Ethan

Ethan and Kara behaved really well at the museum. They walked around holding hands and checking out the exhibits together.

Ethan had a blast!Tiffany dressed up like a dinosaur, and the kids played with eggs in a dinosaur nest. Having fun with dinosaur eggsHere is the model of the 10-ft. dragon that was being built. This was how far along the project was when we put together our bricks to contribute to it.We stopped by again later in the day, and a lot of progress had been made in constructing the dragon.