Dallas Fun

What do you do in Dallas when Mommy is running 26.2 miles? Explore!

Trolley Ride

Christmas Decorations

This is where the typewriter obsession began.

Art Museum Seating

Another trolley ride

Come back tomorrow to find out how the marathon went for Mommy!

Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

More fun at the museum. Seriously, you can't see everything in one day - and we are the people that walked to all of the DC monuments and the Kennedy Center in one day.

Watching chicks hatch 

Baby chicks 

Our family is a party in and of itself! 

What does this do?

Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

Museums are fun because you never really know what is going to be considered museum worthy - how do they choose to pick certain things over others?

I told you they were clowns.

Submarine 

Mirror Maze - the lights changed color which made it even more difficult 

That's one way to measure how tall you are! 

I thought this was awesome.

(Notice I didn't post any of my numbers!)

Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

We visit this museum ever time we go and yet we had never made it down into the mine. There is just so much to explore and do that when you only visit every few years, it's worth the repeat trips.

Inside the mine! 

Every trip we end up with a photo of this tractor tire. It started before kids and has continued to show just how old we are each trip, hah! 

Learning to milk cows 

Operating a crane 

Operating a crane

A couple of DC Museums

DC is filled with amazing museums and we didn't want to miss any. Here are our highlights from the Natural History Museum and the American History Museum.

GRRRR! 

Natural History Museum 

That's a big elephant 

Elmo! 

Trying to prove she's not too short to generate electricity.

Dallas Museum of Art

We went to visit the Dallas Museum of Art and while we enjoyed looking at the beautiful art, the favorite area is the kids' section. Here kids are given art supplies, inspiration, and set free.

Creating sculptures 

Finished results 

A couple of days later he created this. I love when art leaves a lasting impression!

Denver Children's Museum, part 5

This is the last post about the Denver Children's Museum, at least until our next visit!

They had access to wood and tools. We closely supervised. 

They both made an airplane with very different designs

This climbing structure is HUGE. We knew we would want to go up it. 

Going up requires hair nets and helmets. This was an exceptionally good idea as we all bumped our heads much more than expected as we climbed, crawled, and twisted our way through. 

Here is another picture of the climber. It is too big to get in any one photo. All of those vertical boards are part of it. You can see it starts near the bottom left of the photo and goes up more than three stories. 

Denver Children's Museum, part 4

This post shows just some of the ways to explore air at the museum.

First you designed a glider then tested it with a high blast of air. 

Aiming it and timing were key to getting it through the tire (seen in first photo).

Testing wings against an air current 

Animal wings, airplane wings in various shapes and more 

Using a small fan to control the giant fans on the ceiling

Denver Children's Museum, part 3

When a children's museum suggests everyone wear a rain jacket for one area, you really should take one. It was so much fun!

Loading the balls into water cannons 

Dancing in the rain 

Seeing the reaction of an air cannon on water 

Child powered water fall

Denver Children's Museum, part 2

This post is about two different areas in the museum - the fire truck/station area and the bubble area!

Driving a firetruck 

Checking the gauges 

Hesitant to go down the fire pole 

Bubbles filled with vapor 

Catching bubbles

Denver Children's Museum, part 1

We visited the Denver Children's Museum and had a great time. This is the first of 5 posts about it.

They found a door just their size! 

This was in the veterinary area. We are looking at an x-ray to see if the animal is ok. 

Clearly this puppy needs a complete check up! 

They decided he needed some shots to get better. 

This was from a different area - here they are acting like animals.