Triple Delight

I’m pretty exhausted this evening because Charlie and I visited - not 1, not 2 - but 3 museums today!  This reciprocal museum pass is really paying off!  We started off at the MOXI - wonderful stem museum!  His favorite exhibit was a car race track - surprise, surprise!

I packed a lunch and we picnic’d (sp?) on a bench at the museum right before we popped over to the Natural History Museum.  The highlight of this was the outdoor dinosaur animatronics!  The T-Rex was a little too scary for him to take a selfie with - but he loves the mama and baby stegosaurus!

The outdoor space also included a stream to send wooden boats down and a “club house” where kids could observe insects in enclosures and touch seashells and snake skins.  While we were there, we were told about their sister museum - the Sea Center back on the wharf.  I think this was our favorite!  It featured a touch tank and individual aquariums.  There was even a section where folks were pulling seawater out from below the museum (since it is located on a pier), and analyzing the organisms from each bucket dip.  They had microscopes and small dishes for the creatures.   We loved it.

Charlie’s stamina continued to amaze me.  He spotted a “wooden playground” on the way to the ocean center, so we circled back to that when we had finished.  It was a little chaotic and had three entrances so I followed him around the entire time so I wouldn’t lose him!  The day was capped off with my favorite sandwich shop, Sam’s to Go.  I ordered my typical turkey-bacon-avocado with  provolone and it tasted the same as it did 20 years ago!  I think we’ll both sleep well tonight!  In fact, Charlie is already asleep on the recliner - here’s hoping I can transfer him to his crib!