Sunday, August 24, 2008

Vacation in Beantown (Part 2)

Day #3

We were all very excited about visiting the Boston Children's Museum on our last day! Erik and I were even more excited to learn that the museum was FREE to educators... so we paid a grand total of $2 (for Leah) to visit. At that rate, we'll be there every time we're in the city!
The museum is amazing and completely overwhellming. In the lobby there is a huge climbing structure. Leah was too young... mostly because she would have been trampled by older kids.. but we loved watching all the kids climb from each of the three stories.

We focused our visit on the following exhibits: Toddler Play Space, Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China, and Boats Afloat.
Despite not loving her first T experience, the "nains" in the toddler room were a big hit!
A postcard from China... just before the Olympics started!

Drum ditty, drum ditty, drum, drum, drum!

Why start with the American alphabet?

Leah, in her glory, wearing a "BIG big" playing with boats in the water.

Big duck down!

Puzzling with tangrams on a cool light table.

After exhausting ourselves at the museum, we (adults) re-energized with a latte and were off to do some wandering and shopping. Since Erik practically works for Apple, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to visit one of the newest and the biggest Apple stores in the world. It was very impressive! And, Erik was very pleased that he was almost able to stump the Genius Bar crew with some iPhone glitch he encountered.

Here's one for Dad to post in his office!

Leah was much more intrigued with the T on our final ride to Auburndale.

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