As with any Children's Museum, there are a billion jillion things to do there. There were three indoor areas that were (sort of) themed, and then an outside area that featured a train ride, pirate ship, mini village with streets, gardens and a maze. Indoor room #1 was the 'unthemed' room. It featured a cockpit to sit in, an old car, model planes, a dinosaur dig, fish tanks and a blurb about water pollution. See? Hard to classify...
And that's it for that room.. it wasn't exactly a hit with the kids.
Next we went outside because our train ride time had come...
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| It's hovering at around 100F right now... |
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| We had the entire train to ourselves. So Jordan and Rylan elected to sit right behind the engine. |
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| I've never noticed how they have the exact same squinty-face... |
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| The little boys loved the ship - but it was so hot they didn't feel like playing for long... |
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| Here is the maze. I, of course, forgot to get a picture of the actual maze. There was an observation deck in the middle of it so that you could look out over it. |
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| We are heading back inside. We passed through the village to get back to the museum. I wish there were little cars for the kids to drive along the streets - now that would be cool! |
Next we were in room #3, because you travel through it to get to the train (it is in that large yellow building in the picture). There was no way we could pass through it again (after getting to the train in the first place) without climbing this:
And then they played in this:
Which, of course, I took incredibly lousy pictures of... It is a waterway that kids can float rubber duckies down. They can control the flow and so forth, and also winch up buckets of water.
After that we went into room #2, which was by far the best area of fun in the place. There were about ten little themed sections for kids to explore: weights and measures, art studio, grocery store, mechanic's garage, schoolroom, bubble room, mirror room, fire station, television studio, Lego racetrack, doctor's office and a couple more that I can't remember...
The kids were immediately drawn to the grocery store...
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| Jordan checked out Rylan's purchases |
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| Then Rylan had a go. This little girl had a nice array of food items. The juice bottles are filled with tissue paper, as are the bags of chips. I think it would be pretty fun to set up a pretend store at home. Rylan methodically scanned every single item - but then just gave it back to the customer instead of bagging it herself. Lazy... |
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| Owen went shopping, too. He first filled up this basket, and then I wrangled a grocery cart for him - which he then proceeded to fill up with every last apple, orange and banana. He pretty much cleared out the entire produce section. He got in line in the checkout and Rylan admonished him for having such a big family to feed. And then she pretended to scan every. last. item. one. by. one. The line grew long and kids grew huffy... |
And then Owen spotted this...
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| At this point Rylan came over and started bossing Owen about which jobs he would do and what she would do. Needless to say, Owen didn't like that. Aaaaand there you go. As is typical, our family announces its presence wherever we go... |
And then Rylan gravitated to the school room... (as in I forcibly removed her from the garage)
Unfortunately there were no other little kids to boss around in here, so she quickly grew bored with it. We turned around and found Dean and the boys in the bubble room...
Then Owen and I went over to a free-standing display case that housed a mechanical marble track. I neglected to take a picture of it, but it was along these lines...
Owen stood there and studied it for a full twenty minutes. He was absolutely fascinated! When I could finally tear him away, we wandered into the mirror room...
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| Owen said, "Look at all the Owens!" |
We had a great time, and the air-conditioning was awesome. By the end of the afternoon though, Owen was running off in one direction, and Colin in another, so it was time to go. It took three adults to get four children to the car. We will definitely visit again the next time we are in OKC!
Secondly, IF you were paying close attention, you will notice that Owen's and Colin's outfits changed halfway through the day. We spent a short while in room #2 before we took a break and left the museum to go to Braum's for lunch, during which both Owen and Colin took a chocolate milkshake bath - hence the outfit change... caught you not paying attention, didn't I??
