Day At The Museum

Today C1, C2, and I went to the Allen County Museum. We had planned on just going through the Children's Garden there, but when we got there there was a Garden Club meeting going on so we wandered into the museum first.

It was actually nice to go this time of year. We almost always go around Christmas time for the Christmas Tree Festival. Without the crowds, we got to look around a lot more.

One of my biggest memories from going to the museum when I was younger was the Noah's Ark exhibit. That area is always closed off during the Christmas Tree Festival, so I wasn't even sure if it was still there. What it is is an electronically animated story of Noah's Ark. The man that built it lived in this area and donated it to the museum. The gentleman that turned it on today told us it is 110 years old. Pretty amazing! I love that I got to share that with my kids.

After looking around upstairs, we headed down to the basement.

C2 is not the bravest soul. He was really starting to wig out on me down there. He was sure the area where some floor tiles were missing was a bobby trap! He then became certain that they would close the museum with us still inside. (We were the only ones in the basement) So, before he totally lost it, we took a picture of them in front of an antique firetruck.



Back upstairs he relaxed a little bit.




Then we headed back out to the garden. The meeting was over and everyone was gone.






Even this little guy was enjoying a pear he had picked from the tree.



Nice day!