Family Day Out on the Town

After Daddy's work trips we try to celebrate his return with an outing of some sort.  Usually it is a trip to Chuck E. Cheeses to play and Little Caesar's for pizza afterwards.  This time however, we shook it up a little. 

I have three children in the public school system and all three have gone to this science museum called Mobius.  All three have also begged to go again.  "No," has been my answer and my excuses ranged from "It's too expensive." (I really had no idea what it cost.) to "I don't know where or what it is." to "Not with the younger kids."  I decided that it was time to bite the bullet and look into going.  Evan had a coupon for him to get in free, the kids were getting older, and we had the time with the end of daddy's trip coming.  What I found was that the price was really reasonable and that the kids really enjoyed it even Peter.

There was a paper rocket building station.

Ben building

And then the rocket blast off station.

Evan blasting off

A station to make electric currents - Ben

A small child area with experiment tubes - Peter

Rice table - Peter

And various other activities including climbing, sliding and reading areas

Then there was the road/safety area. 

The children could dress up in rescue hero outfits - Evan and Lex

Buckle up - Lex

Drive around while following traffic signs - Lex

There were a couple of tables to teach how water flows and the impact of our actions on our drinking water.

This was a hit with Lex especially.  She loved playing in the water

 Lex and Evan

Water girl Lex

A huge set of Lincoln Log type blocks for building with

Daddy and Peter closing in the house

The older boys loved the digger they could sit on and dig the sand with

Chris

Evan

An art room - Daddy and Peter drawing

A Polynesian area with food, housing and boats

Evan

Rowing down the river

Huge blocks for building

Ben's house

A very fun if tiring time was had by all.  I couldn't believe how fast the time went and they didn't even play with everything.  Total cost for all 7 of us was under $40 and if we added $30 more we would have a one year membership.  Needless to say we are now members and I've taken Peter and Lex with the older boys being in school.  I wish we had gone sooner and am glad we didn't put it off any longer.  Very cool learning/playing place.