Instead of taking a family vacation this year, we decided that we would use Danny's vacation days to visit all the kid friendly things to do in St. Louis. One of the places that we've heard a lot of people talk about is The Magic House. So Danny took yesterday off of work and we went to the Magic House. We decided to get a membership since it would have cost us half the price of a membership just to go once. Here are the pictures of just some of the exibits at The Magic House. I wanted to point out that in the picture below, Alyssa drew the face on the chalkboard person behind her and she was working on coloring shoes when I took this shot.
Alyssa loved this one. There was some piping on the wall behind them that blew air through it and they could shove the scarves and balls into the pipes and watch them shoot through.
I took this picture of Ashley as she was running around. She mostly just wanted to run the opposite way of where we wanted her to go, the whole time we were there. But that is normal for her anywhere we go these days.
They had replicas of the oval office, a courtroom, and the press conference podium (sorry, I don't know the official name). Alyssa probably didn't understand how cool it would be to sit at a desk just like the Presidents desk, but she did think it was pretty neat to talk in this microphone.
And I did manage to get her to sit in the Judges Chair, but she wouldn't put on the dress-up robes that they had there.
This was probably Ashley's favorite part. It was in a construction zone area. They had little hard hats and goggles that they could wear (we didn't even try to get Ashley to wear them, but Alyssa wore the hat for a little while). This area had rocks that the kids could pick up with shovels and put into the fake cement mixer or wheelbarrows. Ashley mostly just wanted to pick the rocks up and throw them on the ground.
This is how Alyssa chose to go from one floor of the building to the next. It worked great going down, but not so well going up. It's hard to tell in the picture, but it looks kind of like a beanstalk with leaves sticking out and the kids could climb from one leaf to the next to either go up or down. The staircase for adults spiraled around the outside of this.
It was a pretty cool place. We wish that our kids would have been a little better behaved so we could have enjoyed it even more. I am glad that we got the pass so that I can take them back when it isn't quite so busy. Especially since in the two hours that we were there, we only saw half of what is inside there.
Alyssa loved this one. There was some piping on the wall behind them that blew air through it and they could shove the scarves and balls into the pipes and watch them shoot through.
I took this picture of Ashley as she was running around. She mostly just wanted to run the opposite way of where we wanted her to go, the whole time we were there. But that is normal for her anywhere we go these days.
They had replicas of the oval office, a courtroom, and the press conference podium (sorry, I don't know the official name). Alyssa probably didn't understand how cool it would be to sit at a desk just like the Presidents desk, but she did think it was pretty neat to talk in this microphone.
And I did manage to get her to sit in the Judges Chair, but she wouldn't put on the dress-up robes that they had there.
This is how Alyssa chose to go from one floor of the building to the next. It worked great going down, but not so well going up. It's hard to tell in the picture, but it looks kind of like a beanstalk with leaves sticking out and the kids could climb from one leaf to the next to either go up or down. The staircase for adults spiraled around the outside of this.
It was a pretty cool place. We wish that our kids would have been a little better behaved so we could have enjoyed it even more. I am glad that we got the pass so that I can take them back when it isn't quite so busy. Especially since in the two hours that we were there, we only saw half of what is inside there.
3 comments:
That looks so cool! What a fun place!
I see law school on the horizon for her honor -- she's already sitting on the bench!
You guys do so many fun things with your girls. I loved the dog cake too. :)
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