Monday, July 13, 2009

Time To Catch Up (III) - Children's Museum

Recently we went to the Children's Museum at the Forks, as we had been meaning to go for the last little while, but we got a kick in the pants when we got a free admission coupon on a Lucky Charms box.  As an aside, don't buy your child cereals with marshmallows, as they will pick out the marshmallows and leave the bland cereal behind.

We went to the children's museum in Minneapolis last year and if I was forced to compare I would say that on a scale of Suck to Minneapolis, Winnipeg sadly rates closer to suck.  They have a nice train that Teresa enjoyed, a vacuum tube system and a slide...  Beyond that they had a region on infrastructure that was, at best, okay, a display on Asia and a fake TV studio that Teresa was too young to enjoy.  

Here are the photographic highlights...

Is that old Francey-Pants being the train's engineer?

Teresa really enjoyed playing with the cash register in the train's passenger car.

Hey look a slide!  I've never seen one of thee before...  I shouldn't be so bitter as she really did enjoy the museum.  She would rate it much closer to Minneapolis I think.

Dancing up a storm on camera.


That is my face on a pin board.  Did you know that your pectoral muscles really look like boobs on one of these things?


Shoulder Rides (and my hair cut).

Look, a sandbox!  What fun!


Playing on the sign out front...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

So does this mean you will grace Mpls with your families presence to avoid the certain trauma Teresa will have by being deprived the Mpls Childrens Museum?

BTW, Ken, next season the Twins will be playing OUTDOOR baseball!

Ken said...

I thought the Twins were two seasons away so I am quite excited. I have been talking with Cara about if we can get down to Mpls this summer (if we do it is in the last weekends of Aug - when is State Fair anyways?). One stumbling block to this point though is that I have acceptable ID to get across the border but Cara needs to get a passport and that will take a while... Stupid new rules enacted by Democrats ;)

wally said...

I couldn't resist:

"The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative is a result of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA)."

(source: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html )

If you're going to rant about politics in foreign countries, at least get the facts right, YOOOOOOST!

Pearl said...

Frances looks shocked - shocked I say! - to have her picture taken while getting a shoulder ride. She's been a Yost for how long...? This shouldn't still be a surprise, should it?

Sarah said...

Pearl, maybe she's shocked that it was just ONE picture instead of a videocam

Cara said...

As you will find out in a couple weeks, that's what Frances looks like all the time. Maybe because she is just realizing what sort of people are keeping her alive:)