The "M word"

When I was 9-years-old, my family drove from California to Washington D.C.
The drive took two weeks because we stopped at every museum along the way.
By the end of our trip, anytime my mom mentioned the dreaded "M word" (museum) there was immediate crying and whining.

Now I'm doing the same thing to my kids!  :)


Chicago has so many AWESOME museums and for whatever reason, they're free to Illinois residents most of the winter.

Museum of Science and Industry

B is showing some aunt-ginnie-uncle-flint-lockwood love.  (Ginnie, when we arrived
at the museum he whispered, "do my boots look like spray-on shoes?")

The plane to B's right has this awesome game called glass bottom airplane.
It shows aerial video of major cities and you have to guess the city.
It was a tad nostalgic realizing how many of the cities we had lived in.

B played a game where he manipulated weight, lift, drag & thrust
to turn a brick into a plane.  We were super proud of his reasoning.  

 Navy Pier Children's Museum

The museum has an "ice skating rink" (ie slippery floor; skate in socks.)  B&L's favorite part

was falling! They thought it was hilarious and kept re-enacting falls off the "ice."