day at the museum

Yeserday Karen had the day off. It was cool. on the calendar, the day was blank. There were no plans, no meetings, no work (for her or me), no scrubmate events, no parties, no plans, a blank day. So we decided to go to the largest children's museum in the USA, which just happens to be about a ten minute drive from our house (maybe five miles). The last time I went was at the end of the school year. It was field trip time, and there were probably 500 little rug rats running around making a mess of the place. This time it was the beginning of the school year and it was practically empty.
At the museum we spent a good amount of time in the playtime learning area. It is a big room with about 10 different "discovery" areas where you can just let the kids go and learn and play. There are two specifically for infants (one is one and under, and one is two and under), a cool water feature, and sand area, a construction site, a big stage for acting with costumes and a few more that I can not remember. We had fun in the Ball ro0m in the one and under area







We also spent a good amount of time in the two and under maze. It was cool. It is all padded, about knee high walls (so the kids can't scalethem). With mirrors and bridges and stairs and a small slide. Xavier had fun and worked on his walking skills.





After the play area we went to the new animation studio presented by the cartoon network. It was the neatest thing ever. They had all sorts of computer photo labs set up to teach you about stop animation, layering, and story boarding. they had a old theater set up showing classic 70's cartoons like captain cave man, and speed buggy, jabber jaw, johnny quest, space ghost, and some classic JLA. They also had a cool "matrix-esq" both with 20 still cameras, that took a simultaneous picture that was stitched together to make an animation. here is ours. it starts in the middle of mine and finishes with Karen's.


all in all, I may have had more fun then the kid.