Archive for May 25th, 2009
We were up early on Saturday and in the car to sync up with the Lafayette Lawsons & Aunt Jill on a day trip to Ohio. After a few hours in the car, we all tumbled out of the car at the Cincinnati Union Terminal to visit all of the museums in that huge building! Right out front was the welcoming party for their newest exhibit…Dinosaurs! That was first on our list, so we headed downstairs and jumped back about 250 million years to see the huge lizards. These were just robots, but they looked and sounded really, really, really real. So real that it too everyone a little while to get their bearings and feel comfortable. But, once we did, we were running the remote control units and making them blink, wiggle, and roar!
Next up was the Duke Energy Children’s Museum. We all really liked the water area and the crazy woods playground, complete with log tunnels and tree houses. The mini town was especially awesome! Riley and Taylor shopped in the grocery store and I ran the cash register (with one arm!).
After spinning through the rest of the exhibits, we grabbed some grub and then jumped over to the Natural History museum. We were greeted by the mastodon skeleton and polar bear, then went through the time machine back to 1790, 1890, and 1990 to see how people lived waaaaay back in those years! Then, a quick jaunt through the human body exhibit before going down in to the caverns. We skipped the bat cave but made the best of the glacier, including the ice cave. Finally, we rounded out the visit by admiring the awesome model train exhibit that had all of the buildings and monuments of downtown Cincinnati.
Next up was the visit to IKEA. Riley, Taylor, and I all went to the play area and hung out without the parents for a while. Parks was still a little on the “vertically challenged” side, so he opted for a nap in the shopping cart with the parents. By the time the Mommies and the Daddies hit the main floor, it was time to pick up us girls and finish the rest of the crazy Scandinavian store. It had been a really big day, and Parker wasn’t feeling up to experiencing any more that Ohio had to offer, so we packed it in and headed home.
The parents all agree that everyone was so super great and played so well together all day. I can’t wait until we get another chance to do something like this again!