Lied Discovery Children's Museum

A couple of weeks ago the kids and I went to the Lied Discovery Children's Museum. We had never been there and a good time was had by all. The first floor has a lot of hands on things to do for little kids. There were dress up area's, an airport check in with a luggage cart and also a mini airplane. There was a grocery store, bank and car repair shop to play in. As you can see below there was also a construction zone area.

Here is Brandon flying the airplane with Emma and Jake as his passengers.

There was also this great bubble making section. We spent quite a bit of time there. It was fun.

Here is Jake showing off his giant bubble he made.

Here I am attempting to put Brandon and I in a huge bubble.

Emma was doing very well at making giant bubbles as you can see.

This bubble maker made a wall of bubbles that Brandon loved to put his hands through. I love the face he kept making everytime he stuck his hands through the bubble wall.

This huge contraption would suck balls up a tube and then the ball would roll across the top and depending which lever you pulled it could pass through 3 different areas before finally reaching the ground again. You could really stand there for hours trying all the different levers. Brandon really liked this section.

This has got to be my favorite picture of the day. The museum has a hurricane simulator that got the wind blowing in this little tube up to 78 mph. I was able to snap a picture of Emma in the wind tunnel. LOVE IT!!

We didn't even get to try everything before Brandon got to tired and needed to go home. They even had a really cool show about liquid nitrogen. It was fascinating to people like me who know very little about science.

We had such a great time we got a year pass so we could check it all out again. The best part is it is only 15 minutes from our house. I am sure we will be going back again soon. Anybody want to go?