More January – Museum Outing

For Christmas Nan gave us a membership to the Rochester Museum and Science Center.
I haven’t been there in probably 20 years or more.
It had a lot of interactive things that the kids loved, including A SIMULATOR RIDE!!?? I couldn’t go on it with Scooter and all. But my younger three did.
It had the same dioramas they had when I was a child — and the kids were about as uninterested as I was back in the day. The difference is, when I went there on field trips with Plank Road South, I had to stand patiently while a docent rambled on with boring facts.

My kids are far more fortunate. I don’t make them read anything.
ACTUALLY – I PREFER THAT THEY DO NOT!
I am quite comfortable with them just absorbing the mental images of a what a long house looks like, or what it looks like under a beaver lodge. I don’t want them reading any of the old-earth nonsense, or the politically correct revisionist history…
Our friend’s the Hs went with us.

Champ wearing his favorite shirt.

This next picture cracks me up.
Angel is 3.75.
This is supposed to be a boat the slaves used in the Underground Railroad.
As soon as the kids climbed in SHE commandeered the most forward seat.
See, she invisioned it a Roman ship.
She was being the galley captain.
The other kids?… they were the slaves.
How many other three year olds call Ben-Hur their favorite movie?
Only kids with older homeschooled siblings, I am sure!

I called her on it.
“[sic] Angel, are you the galley master?”
Big grin.

A cool hover-seat.
The lightest kids got it to move the best.
ME? – not so much!
Okay – Angel loved this mini-ball-crawl.
She loved it so much she ran to me, threw her arms around me, thanking me profusely.
Should I tell her that her dad thinks he threw out our first 100 balls and that we have another 100 in a bag in the garage?

We went under a beaver lodge.
My little dress-up boy! ♥