Amused at the museum

We took Mason to Discovery Gateway yesterday for the first time in a long time.

He had two real favorite parts. The first was The Garden at the beginning. He loved all the different sounds and putting the "yellow balls in white tubes to go buh-bye." He giggled every time he put a ball in any part, and he played in there for almost 45 minutes before we could get him to check out anything else.

But then he moved right on to his second favorite, the area where you "build" things using the crane. However, he actually liked to slide through the tube meant to move the blocks back down to the first level. You can then load them on the crane to put them up on the platform. Well, Dad had a different idea what to do with the blocks. And as you can see from the chuckle on his face, he was pretty proud of himself when Mason only manage to budge the blocks a little on his first attempt.

Well, as I mentioned, the slide is designed for blocks only, not for kids. There is plexiglass with a block-sized square cut out to prevent little monkeys from sliding down. Not that it stopped my little monkey, and he totally managed to get stuck in the square. Not to worry, he wiggled free.

And in the end, he broke through the block pile dad built.

Then, the soaked little monkey (after a stop by the water area) took a trip to the farm area to pretend-eat some plastic carrots and onions.


We ended the day thinking Mason would love a trip to the roof to see the helicopter. He did not. In fact, he tried to pull Alan away from the helicopter, shoe first, for a complete escape. After another brief trip through The Garden, we headed to dinner afterwards to make the night complete.