LI Children's Museum 2013

On Saturday, we scored free passes to the Long Island Children's Museum through our town library. We were actually trying for a different museum but they have a limited number of free passes to different museums and you check out the passes the way you might check out a book. The children's museum worked out pretty well though. We only had an hour there before they closed, but it's super boring for adults, so an hour was about the maximum that I could handle anyway.

James and Kevin outside the LI Children's Museum

We started with the temporary exhibit-- Bloodsuckers-- which was not a fun Twilight or True Blood exhibit, but a sobering one about bloodsucking bugs. I learned quite a bit about my bug nemesis the mosquito, but nothing new that I can actually employ against them.

James playing some kind of tick and mosquito game

He is not winning.

A huge gross tick

I looked around and there was a sand area and a water area, but both would have made James ill-suited to ride back in the car with us. The other areas were mostly classes, so we took James to the  toddler area behind a big school-bus-shaped door. It was a little area full of entertaining things for tots, but it was a little mini Wild West of stealing and pushing. We stayed on James as best we could, as even the little tiny areas were somewhat accessible. At least James had a great time.

James playing with a little town map full of movable vehicles

Toddler area clearing out as it gets close to closing time

James working at a bodega/grocery store like his Cuban and Irish great-grandparents

Running out of the construction excavator