At the museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL, we stayed from about 11:30 until 5:30, when the museum closed and they kicked us out (but not before taking a photo.)
In Indianapolis, Guy had an X-ray taken. Just kidding. Hey, does he have extra hands growing?
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I hope she will be as enthusiastic about playing piano with her fingers this year.
The kids were not happy that I made them pose for this photo...they had many things to run around and look at.
This is the closest to horseback riding that we have gotten. Maybe I should put real horses on our bucket list of adventures. Maybe I'll put Zyrtec on the list, too.
Perhaps this is how young engineers get started?
CJ bought all the kids T-shirts at the museum and they did "chromatography" to decorate them. To do this at home, draw on a T-shirt with a sharpie, then squirt it with isopropyl alcohol. For a better effect, stretch the shirt over the mouth of a glass and hold tight with a rubber band, then draw, and then put alcohol and the center of the circle. Dry. Rinse in cold water before laundering (colors bleed).
CJ, Dacy, Gina and Clementine hanging out at the Children's Museum in Myrtle Beach. Jenny, Margie and Olivia are almost in the photo
Guy spent a lot of time building devices from k'nex.
Even CJ mastered the giant bubble maker! C'mon CJ, do you ever feel like you're living in a bubble?
Zoe discovered the art of crouching low...as the bubble loses liquid it sucks in (you can see it starting) and nearly forms a dome right over her head just before it pops. She wins the award for being able to stay inside the longest before the bubble touched her and popped.
Xander wrote "pac man". He was even willing to share the colored tubes with Clementine when she wanted to play.
Vacation Lesson 4: Get a Membership to a Children's Museum
This is a trick I've used in past years when I knew we'd be traveling long distances: Get a membership to a children's museum (make sure it is a member of both the ASTC network and the ACM network), then use the membership to visit lots and lots of museums all along your route.
The winner this year was the East Tennessee Discovery Center. They are part of both networks, getting you into the maximum number of museums, and an annual family membership is only $50 (you can get a membership by mail). I found a few museums with $40 memberships, but they were not part of both networks. Anyone know of a better deal?
On this trip we visited the ETDC in Knoxville, TN, then the children's museum in Myrtle Beach,SC, the Exploratorium in Indianapolis, IN, and the Musuem of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL. Our very own Madison Children's Museum, WI, is newly rennovated and scheduled to open soon, so we can go there, too! Considering some of the other adventures we paid for on this trip, this was by far the best deal and best loved.
Oh! and after driving for 4-5 hours, if we just stop at a museum to run around for 1-2 hours, the kids were perfectly happy to get back in the car for 4-5 more hours (and nap.)
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