Yesterday we traveled to Salem to visit Grandma (my husband's mom). We (including her) went to A.C.Gilbert's Discovery Village (a hands-on children's museum). Oooh...we (young and old) had a blast! We loved "frozen shadows" where we had about 6 seconds to pose then we could see our frozen shadows on the wall. We went wild with our silly poses. So cool :)! We had tons of fun with bubbles, balls, and body parts. We even got to appear in a video game; a person can stand within a marked area and grab different items and sort them out either into a recycling bin or a trash bin (not in reality but virtual reality). In reality, you just grab air  and jump up & down and move from side to side like someone who's gone bonkers :) . This place not only has two buildings filled with fun, interesting, educational stuff, but also has a gigantic play structure outside that was outstanding! Complicated mazes, dark & scary slides, bouncy balancing bridge, rock climbing wall, etc. My kids pointed out that it's the perfect place for playing hide and seek :). I agreed! My 4 yo son had a great time shopping in the "grocery store" where there were play food items that looked and felt so real. Peaches felt fuzzy like peaches! Peachy cool, huh?
After we had an intense, energetic time playing & exploring, we went to Mill Creek and enjoyed our relaxing time of feeding the mallards, Canadian geese, and pigeons there. These animals love to eat and they're quite bold. We went through 10 loaves of bread in no time :). This feeding activity turned out to be somewhat a dangerous adventure...when a small airplane flew past causing all the pigeons to fly up above our heads. We all ran for cover (into our van) as fast as we could because multitudes of potential poop is not something we should take lightly. In addition, on the ground we had to be very careful where we stepped; it was like a land mine except that this was a pigeon's poop mine, instead. We had a fabulous day but we were pretty much pooped by the late afternoon  . |
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Susan