The original plan for Wednesday was to hit the San Diego Zoo. But, when I woke up that morning, I knew there was no way that was going to happen. I was still feeling pretty miserable and the idea of pushing a stroller around a giant zoo that somehow has ignored the laws of basic physics and been able to make every single direction you walk be UPHILL was not in the least bit appealing. Neither was breathing in dust and all sorts of various animal dander. So I decided we needed to come up with an alternate plan. God Bless Google. I searched and found the Escondido Children's Museum less than half an hour away. And so we headed off. The kids LOVED this place! It was not very big, which is okay, and not very busy, which was GREAT. They had basically free run of the place with maybe a dozen other kids throughout the afternoon. The old time school house was a big hit. They loved having Grandma be the teacher and then switching things up so that THEY were in charge. Enclosing themselves in a giant bubble and painting in the art shed were also repeat events. They worked cooperatively to put on a puppet show for us and to climb the giant tree house in the middle of the museum. Emma LOVED the workshop area too where she must have spent about half an hour working with glue and wood scraps to create new structures. And, once I told her she was allowed to take home the things she built, there was no stopping her! We stayed there almost until they closed - over 4 hours. All in all, it was a great afternoon AND it cost half the price of what one ticket to the zoo would have run me. What a success!
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