busy weekend
Jan. 11th, 2009 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cassidyroseIt has been a busy weekend.
On Friday we took S. to the Children's Museum and he had a blast as usual. "Driving" the firetruck and ambulance remain two of his favorite thing to do there. It was our last time seeing the Alice in Wonderland and Tales of Gullah exhibits as well as they are closing this week. But a Curious George exhibit is opening this spring and that is just exciting.
Yesterday I had rehearsal. I started a new dance and I am happy with how it is looking on everyone.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ptor and S. met up with catzen while I rehearsed and went to the playground and Peet's. After rehearsal we all went out to lunch--it was nice to see cazten. He gave us a cute Dr. Suess calendar and S. is pleased.
Today we went to the Automotive Museum to see the European model train exhibit. S. really enjoyed it and was excited about naming all the different train machinery and loved watching the trains make their runs around the track. We all liked looking at the pre-WWII cars--they were crazy, especially the one with snakes on the front that were horns. I have pictures and will post later. So, that in and of itself made for a good day. However, they were supposed to have a family hands-on workshop focusing on Thomas and Friends activities for kids (the museum isn't otherwise a hands-on place). That workshop was the main reason we went today, and seemed to be the reason scads of other families with Thomas-loving children. The workshop? Disappointing would be an understatement. First of all, it was just a few tables in a fairly bare room. The tables had a few random kids' activities and toys that looked mostly culled from the junk bin at Goodwill. Pieces were broken and missing on the toys and the activities (all three of them) were ill-defined. The only presence of anything Thomas-related was a few magnets stuck on file cabinets, one tiny little Thomas tank-engine toy, some Thomas flash cards, and a laptop with Thomas and Friends episodes running on it. Now, it was advertised as a Thomas event. There was Thomas on the dozens of flyers posted around the museum. The museum staff kept telling everyone it was Thomas-related. It was so not. The coloring pages and books they had weren't even Thomas--I mean, are you kidding me, you can get that stuff at any grocery store for a few dollars. S. had some fun playing, but he kept asking for the Thomas things, because, well, that is what we thought we were doing. Luckily, at 28 months he is a little more easily consoled about the lack of Thomas than the older kids who really thought they were going to a Thomas event. What pisses me off as well is that this museum is so nice inside it looks like the frikkin' Fairmont, not to mention it is an upscale shopping center in the middle of one of the most affluent cities in the Bay Area...they are clearly not hurting for money. They charge $10 per adult and sold a lot of adult tickets today on the promise of a Thomas event for children. They could have shelled out a couple hundred dollars and had some serious Thomas activites--from train tracks with engines and trains for the kids to put together, to Thomas coloring pages, Thomas crafts, Thomas LEGOS, etc. It really was all kinds of false advertising and how cranky I am about it here pales to how cranky virtually all the parents were. I will be writing the museum a note. Our day was saved mostly because we didn't talk-up the Thomas portion before we went and S. was happy with the model trains. Once we thought we were going to do Thomas stuff he had a hard time figuring out why we weren't, though.
After the museum we grabbed some pizza and salad and then headed home. We have to leave for a dinner party in a few and S. has maybe napped 30 minutes today on top of a whopping six hours of sleep last night. Some days he just won't sleep. So, we shall see how he does. I made awesome oatmeal chocolate cookies for the party andptor and I sampled them last night...yum!
On Friday we took S. to the Children's Museum and he had a blast as usual. "Driving" the firetruck and ambulance remain two of his favorite thing to do there. It was our last time seeing the Alice in Wonderland and Tales of Gullah exhibits as well as they are closing this week. But a Curious George exhibit is opening this spring and that is just exciting.
Yesterday I had rehearsal. I started a new dance and I am happy with how it is looking on everyone.
ptor and S. met up with catzen while I rehearsed and went to the playground and Peet's. After rehearsal we all went out to lunch--it was nice to see cazten. He gave us a cute Dr. Suess calendar and S. is pleased.Today we went to the Automotive Museum to see the European model train exhibit. S. really enjoyed it and was excited about naming all the different train machinery and loved watching the trains make their runs around the track. We all liked looking at the pre-WWII cars--they were crazy, especially the one with snakes on the front that were horns. I have pictures and will post later. So, that in and of itself made for a good day. However, they were supposed to have a family hands-on workshop focusing on Thomas and Friends activities for kids (the museum isn't otherwise a hands-on place). That workshop was the main reason we went today, and seemed to be the reason scads of other families with Thomas-loving children. The workshop? Disappointing would be an understatement. First of all, it was just a few tables in a fairly bare room. The tables had a few random kids' activities and toys that looked mostly culled from the junk bin at Goodwill. Pieces were broken and missing on the toys and the activities (all three of them) were ill-defined. The only presence of anything Thomas-related was a few magnets stuck on file cabinets, one tiny little Thomas tank-engine toy, some Thomas flash cards, and a laptop with Thomas and Friends episodes running on it. Now, it was advertised as a Thomas event. There was Thomas on the dozens of flyers posted around the museum. The museum staff kept telling everyone it was Thomas-related. It was so not. The coloring pages and books they had weren't even Thomas--I mean, are you kidding me, you can get that stuff at any grocery store for a few dollars. S. had some fun playing, but he kept asking for the Thomas things, because, well, that is what we thought we were doing. Luckily, at 28 months he is a little more easily consoled about the lack of Thomas than the older kids who really thought they were going to a Thomas event. What pisses me off as well is that this museum is so nice inside it looks like the frikkin' Fairmont, not to mention it is an upscale shopping center in the middle of one of the most affluent cities in the Bay Area...they are clearly not hurting for money. They charge $10 per adult and sold a lot of adult tickets today on the promise of a Thomas event for children. They could have shelled out a couple hundred dollars and had some serious Thomas activites--from train tracks with engines and trains for the kids to put together, to Thomas coloring pages, Thomas crafts, Thomas LEGOS, etc. It really was all kinds of false advertising and how cranky I am about it here pales to how cranky virtually all the parents were. I will be writing the museum a note. Our day was saved mostly because we didn't talk-up the Thomas portion before we went and S. was happy with the model trains. Once we thought we were going to do Thomas stuff he had a hard time figuring out why we weren't, though.
After the museum we grabbed some pizza and salad and then headed home. We have to leave for a dinner party in a few and S. has maybe napped 30 minutes today on top of a whopping six hours of sleep last night. Some days he just won't sleep. So, we shall see how he does. I made awesome oatmeal chocolate cookies for the party and
ptor and I sampled them last night...yum!