Because our family all lives far away, we have become quite adept at long distance road trips. Driving through the night is the way to go (even if it is painful to all the grown ups) because it drastically reduces the amount of stops and baby crying. Also, if you have to drive through the night, you better plan on stopping when the kids wake up. So to drive to Indiana which requires two nights of driving, we plan to arrive the first morning somewhere fun and the second morning at Grandma's house. Everyone's happier that way.
For Christmas we wanted to try out a new place to stop. We timed our departure so that we would arrive in Oklahoma City at breakfast time. We always find a nice sit-down breakfast place ahead of time and this time I think it was Cracker Barrel. Then we headed to the Science Museum.
This was definitely a good idea! The museum wasn't the biggest one we've been to (St. Louis Science Center is bigger) but it was a really good size with more than we could do in a morning.This was really nice because last time we stopped at a children's museum in Texas that was nice and clean but teeny tiny. There wasn't enough to do.
One area had a giant tree house with ladders and stairs and slides and catapults and I don't know what else. Charlotte and I played with blocks while the big kids (Neil included) ran around.
We lost Madoc once at the tree house and couldn't find him for awhile. It turned out that he had wandered into the next room that had lots of hands on science activities.
Charlotte really liked the magnetic gears. She climbed all the way into the box.
We first say a live science show that was really fun. Then we walked around and saw lots of old airplanes and trains and bicycles. I think it was a whole history of travel exhibit. We also went through a space exhibit and some other stuff. Oh, and at the very end as we were leaving we found a room full of gymnastics equipment. We let the kids run off the last bit of energy running and jumping and rolling in there before we headed to lunch and back on the road. It was really a fun stop for everyone.
3 comments:
That's a cool looking museum. We'll have to keep it in mind if we're ever driving that way.
I love the astronaut picture! Their heads are lined up just perfectly!
That was a good place to stop. Two meals and a science center sounds great.
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