This is always a fun trip. The museum is set up as an indoor town where you wander through buildings (stores, canneries, garment factories, print shops, and smithies) looking at (and trying out!) the machines used in different places.
Here are the Zoomlians at the port (harbor) section.
My favorite was the bakery, where we saw a gigantic rolling pin used to cut out donuts. The Zoomlians preferred the TV sound stage where they staged a talent show the like of which I have never seen...
Then it was off to the bizarre alien playground.I don't know who designed this, but they were a twisted genius.
And I'm pretty sure they were not human.
But it's a great place to visit!
They have this ring thing. It's exactly like a merry go round (except there's no center, you can't sit down, it's on an angle and, if you have more than one person on at a time, you are likely to kill each other)
And they have a slide like object (the blue thing extending to the left) that is convex, grooved and without sides. It also wobbles.
My kids, being Zoomlians, have a fabulous time!
I think what's fun about it is that there is no obvious, per-determined way to play with the stuff, so the kids just make stuff up. Also, it has not been "child-safed," so we have a distinctive thrill (right before the "Aiiieeeeee! THUMP).
Next, it was off to the library where I reached my long cherished dream of escaping the library with less than 50 books (47!), mostly because it was a long walk back to Blue Streak (parked at the playground). My true dream is to escape with less than 50 books in less than an hour, but we must take our victories where we may...
I should dream for all that AND finding all the books the first time I try to return them, but even my imagination can't stretch that far!
Then it was home to make dinner and collapse in a book besotted heap.
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