the children's museum

Today my parents took me to the Children's Museum here in Seattle. I have been to a few other museums so I thought I knew what to expect. But I was surprised to not find any statues of children, no children from long ago stuffed behind glass, not even an oil painting of children frolicking in the grass like they used to in the old days. There was none of that. Instead I found stuff to crawl on, things to pick up and play with, and lots of contemporary kids running about.

Although it wasn't what I had in mind, I enjoyed myself nevertheless. The first thing we saw was this man drumming. I got into, actually right in the middle of it. I just sat there and took it in, bobbing my head to the rhythm.





I got to put on a firefighter's helmet and jacket (yes, I have a firetruck at home but no one told me there was an outfit that went with it).


I stopped into a mini grocery store and tried some of their plastic fruit...kind of waxy and definitely not organic!


And on our way home we strolled around the large fountain at the Seattle Center. I need to get waterproof shoes before I try my hand at walking here.