Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Cleveland Rocks

For Labor Day this year, we took the kids on a looooooong road trip up to Michigan but we made a few stops along the way and on the way back.  One of our stops was in Cleveland.  First, we saw the house from "A Christmas Story".  The house offers tours but both kids were sleeping and I just really wanted to see the outside of the house...




and the LEG LAMP!

Afterwards, we moved on to downtown Cleveland:


We stopped for a couple of hours at the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame:



Chrissy Hynde's Porsche:

The kids look at this "little TV" at an exhibit about the origins of Rock:

A special section about Pink Floyd:

There were plenty of stations to stop and sample music - Sean found he really likes Michael Jackson' "Thriller"...

And Clare found a new favorite, too:

 Cars from the U2 Zoo TV Tour:

Phish's Flying Hot Dog Car:


Walking back to the car, Clare and Sean started holding hands while watching a stunt plane practice over Lake Erie...

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Hooray for Wednesday

Wednesday can be a drag - especially in the summer - we're so close but yet so far to summer weekend fun! So we've been getting out and about on Wednesdays this summer - starting with our trip to a nearby farm for Pirates and Princesses night:

After we mixed and mingled with Jack Sparrow and the Princesses, we played on the farm's playground:


And had a yummy dinner and some deep conversations with our pals:

The following Wednesday we went to the Garden State Discovery Museum for "Groovin' and Grubbin'" 

The intention was to get a bite to eat, take advantage of the museum's $5 admission price, and then hear some music.  We never made it into the museum thanks to all the fun activities such as a bouncy house!


There were crafts and food trucks (grilled cheese! cupcakes! watermelon!) and then there was an awesome kids' concert.  The kids had a blast dancing and wiggling to the music.  It turns out this musician came to their school a few days later - the kids were thrilled!



Then we played in the museum's garden:





The next Wednesday we went to Collingswood to check out the Quaker City String Band perform.  We got some "wudder" ice, too!




And then last night, Mommy was NOT in the mood to cook.  So we went to Chipotle for dinner.  The kids' meal is idea - Sean eats the quesadilla and chips while Clare eats the rice and beans... and lemons, of course:

There was a concert going on near the restaurant - Hotlanta, an Allman Brothers tribute band!  We bumped into a few friends - the friends we met up with at Pirates and Princesses night, actually - and the kids danced, ran around, and amassed a small collection of balloon animals while listening to some good tunes :-)

When I picked the kids up from daycare tonight, Sean eagerly asked if we were going to another concert tonight!  He was sad when I said we weren't but we did get to go check out a new farmers' market - it wasn't nearly as good as good as the Farmer's El, but we did pick up some good corn and tomatoes.