Sunday, April 11, 2010

Family trip to San Fran

During spring break we took a little trip to San Francisco to go to the Children's Discovery Museum. The kids absolutely loved it there!! Here are just a few - or MORE pictures of our trip. It may be hard to imagine, but the pictures posted are just a small sample of those that I took that day.

This is just a building that we saw while waiting for Ty get his India (for a summer trip) Visa.
Pretty cool and very San Francisco'ish.


This was a fun little boat - it is set up on some type of massive air tube that gives it a very a real life sway, as if you were on the water. The kids (particularly Moroni) loved playing on it.


Here Ty had crawled through an "underground" tunnel to go inside the "water" that was under the boat. He played a little game of "peek-a-boo" with Teancum; or at least he tried, Teancum was too interested in the fish to even notice his daddy there. Moroni LOVED these trains; it was hard to get him to even look at anything else. He could have stayed at this table all day.

The ocean / wave room was Ty's favorite. Go figure :)

This was the same room - just the other side of the room from the wave where Ty was playing.
They had a bunch of costumes that the kids could put on and see themselves on TV screens pretending to be different kinds of fish - here Moroni was a seahorse.
This was so much fun - Moroni was making the birds fly with his little wheel and Ty was moving the ocean and sailboat.
This was another area of the museum; here the kids could learn about "animal secrets. Below both boys were dressed up as little squirrels and had climbed into a tree with their dad.
Teancum loved being an eagle or at least he loved the eagles nest. I don't think he cared very much for the little boy stealing the eagles away though :)
This is Moroni and daddy taking a tree apart to see what lives inside it and then they put the puzzle back together.
This is Moroni playing outside as a construction worker.

I think that this was my favorite area. The kids were given paint, squirt bottles and brushes and they were let loose on huge windows.

As you can see the windows were large enough to entertain children of all sizes. On the other side of this "artsy" area they had all kinds of materials and supplies to do arts and crafts. I got so busy working on my craft project and entertaining Teancum that I didn't really get pictures in there.
Ty and Moroni crawling through a cave in the "tot spot" section of the museum.

Here Moroni is trying to fit shapes into the appropriate holes.

Moroni had a blast jumping on through these lily ponds; Teancum is so wobbly still he doesn't really need lily ponds for excitement.
In-between two lily ponds there was a tunnel going through a waterfall that the kids could climb through. I got some cute pictures of Moroni and daddy in the tunnel together.

This is an underwater area where the kids could "walk" on water, similar to the lily ponds, but they were completely surrounded by water. I tried to get a good picture of Teancum looking at the fish swimming above his head, but this is the best I got.
Teancum just being cute while he was exploring the "tot spot". The coolest thing about his area is it is made for babies. Children above 42" isn't even allowed inside.
This was the outside area of the "tot spot". Teancum LOVED this area; I think he could have stayed all day here. The water was really cold, but he didn't care. He really loves playing in water. Isn't he sooo cute!

They sure had fun jamm'n together.

This is a picture from the parking lot - Teancum loved feeding the birds and chasing them all over the parking lot.
This was just the drive over there - a fun little shot of the golden gate.