Today we headed over to the Quad Cities again for another field trip date with Leah and the kids. I was a little iffey on whether Tommy would find the Family Museum too babyish, but he ended up loving the water table system and spent over an hour working on different ways to control the flow. We ducked into the library next door for lunch at the yummy cafe, and we helped put out a fire in the outdoor landscaping, where someone had tossed a cigarette onto the dry woodchips! Back at the museum for the afternoon, the girls raced around, dressed up, and pretend played to their heart’s content, we made fancy hats in the art studio, and Tommy even dressed up near the end. Everyone had such a great time that even after five hours, a child who shall remain nameless had a total meltdown at the thought of having to leave and had to be carried, kicking and screaming, from the museum in order for me to get back to Iowa City in time for physical therapy.
We sure are getting our money’s worth out of our Santa Barbara Natural History Museum membership–this is the fourth museum we’ve gotten into for free with its reciprocity since moving out here! That card and Leah’s Family membership both expire at the end of October, so we’re already making plans to come back one more time before then.
