Indianapolis Children's Museum

Two years ago we went to the Children's Museum in Indianapolis and loved it. Nathan was two at the time and even though he was pretty little it seemed they had enough geared towards his age group that it was more than worth the 2 hour drive.

When I heard they had two new exhibits (Hot Wheels and Legos) and that adults can get in right now for the kids price- I asked Marcus to take off work for a Friday so we can make a day trip out of it. Now don't laugh- but this is was our "summer vacation"- a day trip to the museum. Someday we night make it to Disney or the beach- but for now this will have to do.

Anywho...

We all seemed to enjoy it for different reasons.

Luke had a blast exploring the baby and toddler area while I followed him around saying "no don't put that in your mouth" and "no, we don't eat that" and "Lukey, no no, that's not food". He was so proud of himself when he figured that if he held down this button it would make these balls fly around in the plastic part.

When he wasn't playing he was completely content sitting in the stroller with his feet up sucking his fingers (man, I don't even want to think about how difficult it may be to break that habit someday!)

(sometimes my hair does look like that in the mornings...)

This is the blown glass exhibit. It's pretty nifty. The bench in the middle rotates so you can lay there and look at all the cool pieces of art in the ceiling. They even have some on display that you are supposed to try to find (like a seek and find)

We enjoyed being silly on the rotating bench!

Nathan and Marcus loved looking at all of the hot wheels. I was very interested in the displays that showed how the artist first designs the hot wheel and the steps it takes to bring it to development. The "salt shaker" car was my favorite- it had a cool design.

(and of course the hot wheel made of diamonds caught my eye too...haha)

My favorite part, of course, was the dinosphere. Unlike a lot of museums they actually put a lot of the "real stuff" on display. I could walk around in this part of the museum for hours reading everything. The paleontologist were talking with guests as they worked on making replicas of actual fossils so I got the privilege of picking their brains for a bit. It reminded me of being a kid and happily looking at books about dinosaurs over playing with dolls.

The lego exhibit was jaw dropping...I couldn't believe some of the things people can make out of legos. It made me want to give up my career and go play with legos all day. I can dream right?

On the way home we asked Nathan what his favorite part was.

He said the drink in the cafeteria.

Figures.

:)