Where We've Been

It's been a little while since I updated.
Here are some things we have been doing: Trip to the Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. Just about an hour from here. Kind of a spur of the moment trip for us but it worked out great. Bright slept on the way up there, woke up when we arrived and played for two hours solid before we had lunch and played some more. I ran into 2 people I used to work with at the Rochester School for the Deaf. Great to see them again- good reminder to brush up on my signing skills. I was a little rusty. Fortunately most of the deaf friends that I have are used to folks with little to no signing skills so they were patient with me while I got back into it. The Museum was really an indoor play center with all kinds of rooms-

a Wegmans shopping center where the kids got kid sized carts to drive around and pick out plastic replicas of foods with bar codes on them. They could then take them to kid sized checkouts and scan them themselves and print out receipts too. Bright loved that! He was really into driving the carts around.


A place to "drive" race cars was also a lot of fun.
You could also race matchbox cars and see who won.

There were two good sized salt water aquariums there.

There was a replica of the Sesame Street street with Big Bird and the stoop where the gang hangs out.
There was also a whole section of Clifford the Big Red Dog stuff. The neighbor where the stories take place, all the characters and a playground within it. You could deliver the mail to all of the houses and stores in the neighborhood, or play in the tool shed or make/take orders at the burger shack there.

I see that my boy has not learned to transfer the "Don't touch- the stove is hot" lesson to places outside of our home :)


There was also a random encounter with Clifford himself- scared the daylights out of Bright.Among the other things there was a plane you could "fly".
A butterfly house that we did not go into because it is a timed admission thing that we did not get tickets for when we first go there and the wait was a hour, plus an extra $3 per adult.
There was a nook that had a computer in it that Bright could play with and not get scolded- he had never played with a mouse before since we have the laptop and no mouse.
We bought lunch there- pizza for Bright and I and a veggie burger that looked like meat and I had to ask to make sure it wasn't for Andy, which he declared to be the meatiest tasting veggie burger he had ever had, and also said it was good.
Drinks before heading home.... and the scene in the car on the way back...
Yup- that is some sort of choco-cookie on my boy- either an Newman O or an Oreo. and yes, he did pop the lense out of his sunglasses at some point too. So much more there to see and do another time.


We also just came back from trip to the Spray Park in Geneva and had a blast there also. Now I am pooped and gonna take a nap.