This is outside the bathroom before we really had gone into the exhibits! He gave me two thumbs up for just being there! Maybe we need more family time?
This is the first thing we came to, a bus! Ben loves buses!
And here is the second! Can you believe it? His very favorite thing!! TRAINS!! there was a bell and he could turn the lights on and everything! There was also a huge table of wooden train tracks like he has at home! It took a few minutes to convince him there was other things in the building worth leaving this area for!
This was a VAST amount of fun, especially for Matt! He and Ben tried for quite sometime to figure out how to get the scoop to put the balls back at the far end so they could scoop them again!!
Wouldn't have thought you could fit those two in that little cab at the same time! but there they are!
This was some kind of Hockey game. Matt thought it was cool. Ben and I could not figure it out, so we got bored quick!
This is obviously a Plexiglas truck. Again, an enormous amount of fun! They were watching for traffic, of course!
Okay, so this was pretty fun! You used the giant lever to pick up the Dihatsu! This is one of my favorite pics, Ben didn't notice Matt pulling the lever, he totally thought he had picked up that car himself!
This one is for me. I had not wrapped my head around the fact that there was such a huge size difference in the planets! this was a model they had set up to show the relationships. Matt laughed at me for a good ten minutes because of me exclamations at the littleness of the earth as compared to Saturn or Uranus! Some how my mind's eye just never made this connection! Fascinating!!!!
The entire center area of the museum is a play area, kind of like at a McDonald's, but it had areas about motion and energy, sound and pitch, health and diet, etc. It was very interesting and fun! Ben played a piano that you walked on! This is a picture of Clara and I playing a ginormous guitar, it scared her a little!
Perhaps Ben's favorite exhibit was the smallest. Just a little display really of some dinosaurs. This first shot his him in side the tunnel, the second is what he is looking at! All week after we went he told everyone he saw about the dinos!
Behind the dinos is the sky-scape room. it is a beautiful view of the Nashville skyline. Ben dug this, mostly because he could see the freeway and there just happen to be firetrucks passing!
( I cant help but admire his curls here! *sigh* I hope his sister gets some of this!)On of the slides inside the discovery area. Apparently it was big enough to be picture worthy, twice!
This game was like the Whack-a-Mole at the fair, but instead it was foods. The idea was to hit the good foods and not the bad foods. Ben just liked that he could hit it as hard as he wanted and not get in trouble for being rough!
One large area of the museum is devoted to the human body and how it works. They had this real ambulance in there for the kids to climb in and around. One never really wants to see any of their kids in an ambulance, let alone both at once, but if you are going to this is the ONLY way!!
If it can be driven, Ben will drive it. It is a good thing he had his trusty co-pilot!
This game was like the Whack-a-Mole at the fair, but instead it was foods. The idea was to hit the good foods and not the bad foods. Ben just liked that he could hit it as hard as he wanted and not get in trouble for being rough!
One large area of the museum is devoted to the human body and how it works. They had this real ambulance in there for the kids to climb in and around. One never really wants to see any of their kids in an ambulance, let alone both at once, but if you are going to this is the ONLY way!!
If it can be driven, Ben will drive it. It is a good thing he had his trusty co-pilot!
So, you know it has been a successful day when this is the scene 5 minutes after getting in the car! It was a much needed Good Day!
