Sunday night was sort of a nutroll, but once we got our lodging situation worked out and I rented a car (that my parents ended up taking care of for us - THANK YOU SO MUCH!), things went much more smoothly. Almost every morning, the girls and I tried to get out of the room as quickly as possible so my parents and sister could sleep later than 5am, and we had breakfast at the restaurant downstairs. The buffet was around $10 and the didn't charge for the girls, so for us, that was a GREAT deal, since both of my kiddos are eating machines.
After we got the cars figured out, we sent Katherine out to go shopping with the girls and my parents took us up to the amazing Washington Park to explore the Children's Museum.
This place is INCREDIBLE!!! It is hands-down the very best kids' museum I have ever been to...and that's saying something, since the girls and I spend lots of time in kids' museums. There are so many different sections, from a stage where kids can control the lights, music and curtains, to a digging zone with recycled rubber 'rocks' to this amazing water section, glass-walled from the rest of the museum where kids can control how this complex water wheel works. Even the snack bar was awesome, stocked with organic snacks, veggies, yogurt, etc. I'm a big fan. You should go.
Carly and Poppy played in the water table, where you can place little walls and make the water flow in a certain way. Most of the parents in the area were having more fun with this feature than the kids were. See Bree and the duck? This is before she dropped it to watch it race...
And then she'd get so excited to see it swimming down the course!
One of the little hidden sections of the museum is a reading forest, with a tree house, this hollow log, lots of books and fluffy flower cushions all over the floor. Bree was hilarious, she spent a solid ten minutes crawling back and forth.
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