Girl's Weekend Part 2

The next morning we all drug ourselves out of bed, determined to pretend to be awake until we actually were. Thankfully we had a pretty sweet plan all ready to go! Lulu bought everyone tickets to get into the Children's Doseum and it was so much fun!

Ready to go!

 Our first stop was outside to see the waterfall, creek, and tree house.

Emma and Molly investigate - and get very wet in the process

Little wet foot prints

Loving the chance to explore

Typical Emma - more interested in the mechanics of something :)

Clara checking out the tunnel under the tree house

Racing each other down

A chance to climb

Looking for frogs and fish

So cute!

Love this picture of Lulu and 3/4 of her Ladybugs

Once we were hot and sweaty, we went inside in search of some A/C and new things to explore. We found the Little Town and it was amazing!!!

It had all kinds of cool stuff: an airport (complete with security and an airplane and control center), a bull dozer (with a mulch pit for digging), an HEB (with a dry goods section, fresh produce, frozen, bakery, butcher, as well as check out stations with actual scanners and little screens to push buttons), a bank (complete with a drive through), taco truck, car and gas station, trolley, vet clinic and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. Really impressive!

I confess these photos are out of order, but I tried to clump like-activities together, rather than the sporadic way they ran everywhere :)

Headed to airport security with her luggage

I looked up just in time to see Emma putting HERSELF through the scanner!

Molly and Clara in the control center

Monkey see, Monkey do

The whole crew flying!

Clara loading up her luggage on the "Molly Trolley" to visit "her neighborhood" hehe (Daniel Tiger reference for those of you without toddlers)

Clara driving the trolley

Emma driving around town - backwards

She found a fish steering wheel! What could be better?!

There was a little screened in patio right off of the town with a few things to do too.

Clara found this musical armadillo xylophone thing out there.

And a lizard slide

Checking out the balls and frogs

Rocking ship

 When we went back inside Clara found a car and a gas pump. Don't worry, this car is all ready to go now!

Taking a turn to drive

Emma's turn

No worries - we won't hook them up up with drivers licenses just yet. 

Then they went shopping at HEB - probably one of Clara's favorite places in the museum. She had fun picking out produce and looking for the dried goods (like quinoa and milk cartoons) that we buy. It was cute.

These check out stations were so cool! There were 3 or 4 of them, each stocked with paper bags, plastic bags, and resumable bags. There was a scanner (that little black circle) that actually scanned barcodes and then put the item name and number and price on the screen!

And it was a touch screen too! They could select something like "bananas" that didn't have a barcode from a picture, enter the quantity and that would pop up.

Emma mostly just wandered around grabbing random things :)

I never saw Molly shop at the HEB center, but she may have.

Emma loved the bank. It had all sorts of drawers and cabinets and flopping thingys to mess with. There was also the tubing from the drive through (look through the window) to the bank itself, putting money in the little balls and push send (and it actually created a wind tunnel to push it through. Crazy.

Emma eating at the Taco Truck (notice the bank drive through behind her)

Then we went to explore the bulldozer!

Emma going to drive

Clara checking things out

All dressed up and ready to work

Emma with her goggles

 Playing in the mulch - for way longer than I would have guessed their attention span would have lasted!

This was a pretty cool little conveyer belt:

 

I should note that Emma's very favorite thing about the Little Town was this little pill bottle she picked up at the Vet Clinic that she could put the lid on and off. And did it repeatedly. And again and again and again. She was a little distraught when we finally pried it out of her tiny hands. Poor baby.

 We finally managed to heard them out of the little town to see what else was around.

A musical staircase! Every step made a different sound

Putting things together

This screen was a projection of a camera above where the girls were playing

There was so much more we could have done, but our girls were tired and hungry and cranky.

We decided we'd go ahead and leave and feed them and hope for naps.

More from Saturday in the next post!

Read Part 3 here.