family fun day

A busy day today! We took Emily, Jonah, and Emily's friend Abby to the Holyoke Children's Museum for the afternoon. I'd link to their site, but it's down, and I have a feeling that it looks like it's put together by chimps, anyway.

I was a smart mommy, and packed brown bag lunches for the girls, which they ate in the way back, gabbing like a couple of teenagers, and a cooler full of juice boxes and other yummies. For once, we didn't drop $30 on crappy food.

The museum, like most children's museums, is more of a themed indoor play space than anything. The girls spent most of their time at the ambulance, with stops at the television studio, bubble table, and indoor climbing apparatus. Jonah spent most of his time at the "Tot Lot".

The big hit of the day, however, was the adjacent fully restored, authentic, vintage carousel. (Scroll down on the site for details, and notice that the organ was made in North Tonawanda!)

We all thought that it was the most fun part of the day.

The ride out was bouncy and noisy and excited...the ride home was, shall we say, more sedate. It reminded me of Norman Rockwell's Going and Coming.

Posted by volfie at February 19, 2003 08:55 PM