Saturday: coming home

After a week in Missouri we came back.  (More posts to follow.)

First we had to pack up and get out of the house by 10am.  While it was a bit early, we were ready in time.  We ate leftovers with whatever we could find. 

The boys played a few last games of the driving arcade game.

We said our sad goodbyes and left.  We decided to go to the Discovery Center that was about an hour up the road, but pretty close to our planned route.  We stayed there quite a while and had a really fun time.  (We also went to an Indian restaurant down the road and the kids didn't like it at all.  Not even the mango lassi-s.)

There was a bed of nails.  It felt quite silly, actually.

Shadow wall

Ferro liquids

I drank from a toilet!  I was Mrs. Stinky for a while with all the kids, so it seemed so appropriate.

Joshua immediatly went to the big Lego blocks and patched up the house framework.

They were both surprised by the whisper dish.  They thought it was magic for a while until I showed them the dishes.

The water part was one of their favorite parts.  I had to "drag" them away because other people needed a chance to play too.

But then we found some air tubes with pom poms that blew out and hit you.  I haven't seen that much excited jumping from the kids in a while.

Joshua was really hamming it up on the drive home.  "Mom, do you know the word Mississippi?"  "Mom, do you have the toilet seat?"  (That one stumped me for a while until I realized it was his portable one.)

We pushed through the whole drive in the end.  The boys slept quite a bit and so that is always helpful.