Fun field trip

Way back before Thanksgiving, I took our first long-distance field trip with all four kids.  

We travelled to a big children's museum, and it turned out to be super cool.

There was a Native American village with traditional instruments, houses, and assorted other objects.


It also had a model which showed houses on land and canoes in the water.

Caleb insisted the boats belonged in the "garages."

Caleb and Lizzy both got a kick out of the toddler area.

My favorite part was a big model river, with boats you could float down it, and canal locks you could open and close, and a waterwheel that powered a light.

(Caleb, of course, wouldn't send his boat downstream; he just clutched it and made sure everyone knew it was "MINE.")

He did play on a simulated boat ride.

There was a whole room of stuff having to do with building and architecture.

Jeddy got to work the crane to put steeples on some buildings.

It was four stories high, not counting the enclosed lookout from the roof.  You could take the light-up stairs from floor to floor, or:

you could climb, slide, crawl, or take the zip line.


The place was huge.  There was much more I didn't get pictures of, which I think is excusable, considering I kept track of four children crawling through different tunnels that led who knew where and didn't permanently lose any of them, despite the crowd.

I fed them treats before the ride home.  They all seemed pretty happy with the day.